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We study how consumers interact with financial products and services to help identify potential problems in the marketplace and achieve better outcomes for all. Review our reports and analyses to help inform your decisions, policies, and practices. And, see reports that we periodically prepare about the CFPB.

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Issue Spotlight: Public Benefits Delivery & Consumer Protection

Public benefits predominantly flow to families in need or individuals at an insecure time. It is critical that beneficiaries have full and timely access to these funds. This Issue Spotlight examines the challenges that recipients of public benefits encounter in accessing funds through financial products or services.

Category: Consumer complaint | Category: To Congress |
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2021 Consumer Response annual report

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began consumer response operations on July 21, 2011, and became the first federal agency solely focused on consumer financial protection. The Bureau’s Consumer Response team hears directly from consumers about the challenges they face in the marketplace, brings their concerns to the attention of financial institutions, and assists in addressing their complaints.

Category: Consumer complaint |
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Consumer Complaint Research Brief: Consumer complaints throughout the credit life cycle, by demographic characteristics

The CFPB’s Office of Consumer Response hears directly from consumers about the challenges they face in the marketplace, brings their concerns to the attention of companies, and assists in addressing their complaints.

This Consumer Complaint Research Brief analyzes the racial and socio-economic diversity of consumer complaints.

Category: Consumer complaint | Category: To Congress |
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2020 Consumer Response annual report

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau began consumer response operations on July 21, 2011, and became the first federal agency solely focused on consumer financial protection. The Bureau’s Consumer Response team hears directly from consumers about the challenges they face in the marketplace, brings their concerns to the attention of financial institutions, and assists in addressing their complaints.

Category: Consumer complaint |
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Complaint snapshot: Mortgage

This Complaint Snapshot provides a high-level overview of trends in consumer complaints and supplements the Consumer Response Annual Report with more recent information about monthly changes in complaint volume and a spotlight on mortgage.