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In 2016, the Bureau released the Building Blocks to Help Youth Achieve Financial Capability: A new model and recommendations, which describes where and when children and young adults acquire the foundations of financial capability. Now, the Bureau has created the Building Blocks Measurement Guide to provide researchers, program leaders, teachers, and other financial educators with ways to assess young people’s progress toward each building block.

Learn what the Bureau is doing to prevent elder financial exploitation in communities across the country. 

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It’s common for couples to share their financial lives but not the responsibility for managing household finances.  But if a spouse dies or experiences a sudden illness, getting up to speed quickly could be challenging for the person left behind. Share your family financial picture now to prepare for the future. 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today issued a Request for Information (RFI) on consumer financial education. 

Recursos gratuitos disponibles que pueden reducir el costo de declarar impuestos y así permitirle ahorrar más dinero.

Report Provides Annual Summary of Actions Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Resources to help you make a plan to save.

This tax season, you may be offered a tax refund advance loan or refund anticipation check. Learn more about these products and how they work.

Borrowers whose student loans are forgiven due to death or disability will no longer have to pay federal income taxes on those forgiven loans. Now, tens of thousands of disabled veterans and hundreds of thousands of people living with severe disabilities are eligible for new student loan protections.