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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: 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: Blog
Archived
Debt collectors that take advantage of surviving spouses and their vulnerabilities
Category: Consumer advisories
Archived
Consumer Advisory: Video games are targeting your children to get into your wallet
Category: Report 2023 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Finds Violations of Credit Report Accuracy Requirements, Including for Survivors of Human Trafficking
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 32 (Spring 2024)
Category: Report Banking in video games and virtual worlds
Category: Speech
Archived
Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra at the White House on Data Protection and National Security
Category: Consumer advisories
Archived
Consumer Advisory: Opportunity to cancel student loan debt ends soon
Category: Blog
Archived
Beware of new CFPB imposter scams
Category: Speech
Archived
Prepared Remarks of CFPB Enforcement Director Eric Halperin on the TransUnion Enforcement Actions
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and FTC Take Actions Against TransUnion for Illegal Rental Background Check and Credit Reporting Practices
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Trends in reverse mortgage direct mail advertising
Category: Blog
Archived
New lessons for elder justice networks
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Medical Billing and Collections Among Older Americans
Category: Report 2022 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
Archived
You can help caregivers spot illegal nursing home debt collection tactics
Category: Speech
Archived
Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks to the Financial Literacy and Education Commission
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: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action to Protect the Public from Shoddy Data Security Practices
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Financial challenges faced by recently widowed older adults
Category: Blog
Archived
Data spotlight: Older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Profiles of older adults living in mobile homes
Category: Blog
Archived
How to prevent and report scams targeting older adults
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Medical debt among older adults before the pandemic
Category: Report 2021 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
Archived
If you’re a homeowner struggling to make housing-related payments due to the pandemic, help is available or coming soon
Category: Report Justice-Involved Individuals and the Consumer Financial Marketplace
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: Blog
Archived
Consumer Fraud Alert - Tips for avoiding VA home loan scams
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB and FDIC Release Enhanced Version of Money Smart for Older Adults
Category: Blog
Archived
Dedicating July to military consumer protection
Category: Blog
Archived
Celebrating older adults and the communities of strength supporting them
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Takes Action Against Operators of An Unlawful Student Loan Debt-Relief Scheme
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: 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: Blog
Archived
Help your loved ones avoid scams this holiday season
Category: Blog
Archived
Play it safe online
Category: Blog
Archived
Falling for scams could be a disaster
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: Blog
Archived
Download new fraud prevention activity sheets for older adults
Category: Blog
Archived
Online and mobile banking tips for beginners
Category: Blog
Archived
Avoid scams while finding help during quarantine
Category: Blog
Archived
Tips for financial caregivers during the coronavirus pandemic
Category: Blog
Archived
Five ways to recognize a Social Security scam
Category: Blog
Archived
Know your data: Our updated list of reporting companies
Category: Report 2019 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights Consumer Reporting Special Edition, Issue No. 20 (Fall 2019)
Category: Blog
Archived
How to tell the difference between a legitimate debt collector and scammers
Category: Press release
Archived
CFPB Releases Financial Well-Being Report with State-by-State Comparisons
Category: Report Financial well-being by state
Category: Blog
Archived
Spoil your grandkids, not scammers!
Category: Blog
Archived
Protect yourself from credit card fraud at the register
Category: Blog
Archived
Scams involving your Social Security number and benefits are on the rise
Category: Report Reporting of Suspected Elder Financial Exploitation by Financial Institutions: An update to the 2016 Advisory and Recommendations
Category: Press release
Archived
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Recommends Financial Institutions Report Suspected Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
Category: Blog
Archived
Mortgage Closing Scams: How to protect yourself and your closing funds
Category: Report Convening communities to build elder fraud prevention and response networks
Category: Blog
Archived
5 ways you can guard against identity theft
Category: Blog
Archived
New protections available for minors under 16
Category: Blog
Archived
This tax season, protect yourself from IRS imposter scams
Category: Blog
Archived
Financial institutions report widespread elder financial abuse
Category: Report Suspicious Activity Reports on Elder Financial Exploitation: Issues and Trends
Category: Report Financial Well-being of Older Americans
Category: Blog
Archived
Helping to prevent scams targeted at veterans
Category: Press release
Archived
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to Hold Press Availability After Town Hall in Baton Rouge, La.
Category: Blog
Archived
Bringing the Bureau to your community
Category: Blog
Archived
The latest version of "Money Smart for Older Adults" is now available in Spanish!
Category: Blog
Archived
Managing someone else’s money: New protection from ID theft and fraud
Category: Press release
Archived
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Issues Updated FCRA Model Disclosures
Category: Blog
Archived
Bureau joins task force on market integrity and consumer fraud
Category: Blog
Archived
Guard your new Medicare ID card to avoid fraud
Category: Blog
Archived
Guard your wallet as well as your heart: Romance scams
Category: Blog
Archived
Warning: Lottery scam using a CFPB employee’s name
Category: Blog
Archived
This holiday season, don’t let scammers take advantage of your generosity
Category: Report 2017 Financial Literacy Annual Report
Category: Blog
Archived
How to spot a scammer
Category: Speech
Archived
Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Consumer Advisory Board Meeting
Category: Blog
Archived
How to get a handle on debt
Category: Blog
Archived
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