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Category: Report 2025 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Home Equity Contracts: Market Overview
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Social Security Offsets and Defaulted Student Loans
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 37 (Winter 2024)
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Sues Comerica Bank for Systematically Failing Disabled and Older Americans
Category: Press release
Archived
Agencies Issue Statement on Elder Financial Exploitation
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and CMS Take Action to Stop Illegal Billing of Lowest-Income Medicare Recipients
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Auto Finance Special Edition, Issue 35 (Fall 2024)
Category: Blog
Archived
Debt collectors that take advantage of surviving spouses and their vulnerabilities
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Sues Horizon Card Services and CEO Robert Kane for Illegally Baiting, Gouging, and Trapping Families in High-Fee Credit Cards
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Bans Navient from Federal Student Loan Servicing and Orders the Company to Pay $120 Million for Wide-Ranging Student Lending Failures
Category: Speech
Archived
Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on the Navient Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Report 2023 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Special Edition Student Lending, Issue 36 (Winter 2024)
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Servicing and Collection of Consumer Debt, Issue 34 (Summer 2024)
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against James and Melissa Carnes for Fraudulently Hiding Money to Evade Law Enforcement
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Warns Against Deception in Contract Fine Print
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Director Rohit Chopra’s UC Irvine Law Review article on enforcing the post-financial crisis ban on abusive conduct.
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 33 (Spring 2024)
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 32 (Spring 2024)
Category: Blog
Archived
State UDAAP Developments
Category: Consumer advisories
Archived
Consumer Advisory: Opportunity to cancel student loan debt ends soon
Category: Letter
Archived
CFPB Letter to New York State on the Prohibition on Abusive Conduct
Category: Blog
Archived
Beware of new CFPB imposter scams
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and Justice Department Sue Developer and Lender Colony Ridge for Bait-and-Switch Land Sales and Predatory Financing
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Fines Repeat Offender Enova $15 Million for Violating Order, Deceiving Customers, and Withdrawing Funds Without Consent
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Trends in reverse mortgage direct mail advertising
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Sues Snap Finance for Illegally Luring Americans into Expensive Financing and Bullying Borrowers Using False Threats
Category: Letter
Archived
CFPB Letter to State Legislature on Establishing a Victims of Consumer Fraud Restitution Fund
Category: Blog
Archived
New lessons for elder justice networks
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Medical Billing and Collections Among Older Americans
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Issues Guidance to Address Abusive Conduct in Consumer Financial Markets
Category: Speech
Archived
Director Rohit Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the University of California Irvine Law School
Category: Report 2022 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights Junk Fees Special Edition, Issue 29, Winter 2023
Category: Blog
Archived
You can help caregivers spot illegal nursing home debt collection tactics
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes $19 Million Action Against Loan Doctor and Edgar Radjabli for Offering Fake High-Yield Bank Accounts
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and New York Attorney General Take Action Against Companies that Cheated 9/11 Victims
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 28, Fall 2022
Category: Director's statement
Archived
Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Complaint Against ACTIVE Network
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Sues Payment Platform Used by YMCA Camps and Charity Race Organizers for Illegally Cramming Consumers With Junk Membership Fees
Category: Report Recovering from Elder Financial Exploitation: A framework for policy and research
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Nursing Home Debt Collection
Category: Speech
Archived
Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the CFPB Field Hearing on Nursing Home Debt Collection Practices
Category: Blog
Archived
Beware of scammers pretending to be from the CFPB
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Financial challenges faced by recently widowed older adults
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action to Protect Depositors from False Claims About FDIC Insurance
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Orders Scam’s Ringleaders to Pay More Than $8 Million to Consumers and Student Loan Borrowers
Category: Blog
Archived
Data spotlight: Older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Profiles of older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 26, Spring 2022
Category: Blog
Archived
How to prevent and report scams targeting older adults
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Obtains Ban Against Debt Relief CEO Daniel Crenshaw
Category: Blog
Archived
Busting myths about bankruptcy and private student loans
Category: Speech
Archived
Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks on the Repeat Offender Lawsuit Against TransUnion and John Danaher
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Medical debt among older adults before the pandemic
Category: Report 2021 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Bans Payment Processor BrightSpeed Solutions and Its Former CEO for Supporting Telemarketing Scammers Targeting Older Americans
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Shutters Lending by VC-Backed Fintech for Violating Agency Order
Category: Speech
Archived
Remarks of Director Rohit Chopra at the Elder Justice Coordinating Council Meeting
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Suspicious Activity Reports on Elder Financial Exploitation
Category: Blog
Archived
New rule ensures mortgage servicers provide options to potentially vulnerable borrowers exiting forbearance
Category: Blog
Archived
We have resources to help you avoid foreclosure
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and FDIC Release Enhanced Version of Money Smart for Older Adults
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Fintech Company GreenSky for Enabling Merchants to Secure Loans for Consumers Without Their Authorization
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Company and its Owners and Executives for Deceptive Debt-Relief and Credit-Repair Services
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Company and its CEO for Deceptive Deposit and Loan Products
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Auto Lender for Unfair Loss Damage Waiver Practices
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Debt-Settlement Company for Charging Consumers Unlawful Fees
Category: Blog
Archived
Celebrating older adults and the communities of strength supporting them
Category: Director's statement
Archived
Statement by CFPB Acting Director Dave Uejio on Mr. Cooper Unauthorized Withdrawals
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Reverse Mortgage Lender for Deceptive Advertising
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against SettleIt, Inc. for Steering Consumers into High-Cost Loans
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Action Against Payment Processor and Its Former CEO for Supporting Internet-Based Technical-Support Scams
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York Attorneys General Sue Libre for Predatory Immigrant-Services Scam
Category: Speech
Archived
Prepared Remarks of Acting Director Dave Uejio for the Libre Enforcement Action Press Call
Category: Blog
Archived
Break up with online romance scams
Category: Blog
Archived
Navigating an early and unexpected retirement during COVID-19
Category: Blog
Archived
What you should know about tech support scams
Category: Report 2020 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
Archived
Avoid Reverse Mortgage Shopping Scams
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sues Debt Collector BounceBack, Inc.
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Settles with Debt Collector for Engaging in Deceptive Debt Collection Practices in Three States
Category: Blog
Archived
Help your loved ones avoid scams this holiday season
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Settles with U.S. Equity Advantage, Inc. and Its Owner, Robert M. Steenbergh, for Deceptive Sales Practices
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Files Lawsuit Against Driver Loan, LLC And Its CEO
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Settles with SMART Payment Plan, LLC for Deceptive Sales Practices
Category: Blog
Archived
Play it safe online
Category: Blog
Archived
Falling for scams could be a disaster
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Settles with Mortgage Companies to Address Deceptive Loan Advertisements Sent to Servicemembers and Veterans
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Announces Settlement with Foreclosure Relief Services Company and Its Owner
Category: Blog
Archived
Alphabet soup: The ABCs of military consumer protection
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Files Suit Against Loan Doctor and Edgar Radjabli for Deceptive Acts and Practices in Marketing a Savings CD Account
Category: Blog
Archived
Considering an early retirement withdrawal? CARES Act rules and what you should know.
Category: Blog
Archived
New resource in the fight against elder financial fraud
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Releases Tool to Help Communities Prevent and Respond to Elder Fraud
Category: Blog
Archived
How to avoid COVID-19 government imposter scams
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Study Highlights Challenges Retirees Face to Meet Expenses in Early Years of Retirement
Category: Report Retirement Security and Financial Decision-making: Research Brief
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Commonwealth of Massachusetts File Suit Against Credit-Repair Telemarketers

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