The CFPB today issued its annual report on top financial concerns facing servicemembers, veterans, and military families.
CFPB’s Section for Students and Young Consumers released new podcast episodes. Subscribe today.
This is the first episode of a three-episode “managing your student loan series,” which will discuss tips about how to manage money, pay for college, and make good decisions.
Each booklet is a colorful and compact set of tools from the toolkit that you can use to quickly and easily talk with people about common financial stressors.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established a student loan ombudsman within the CFPB.
The CFPB released the annual report of the Student Loan Ombudsman, highlighting severe difficulties reported by student borrowers in consumer complaints.
This report is required by statute. It covers the student lending market, complaints, challenges for consumers, and makes recommendations to policy makers.
In addition to the amount you borrow, payday lenders generally add a finance charge that’s a percentage or dollar amount per $100 borrowed.
This report analyzes complaints submitted by consumers from October 1, 2015 through May 31, 2016 and highlights the issues that consumers face when seeking...
Today, I'd like to talk about how the Bureau is working to make a better student loan market, and I'd like to announce an exciting initiative with the...
The Hydra Group Uses Phony Payday Loans to Illegally Access Consumer Bank Accounts Today, the Bureau announced its action to halt the operations of an...
This page will help you navigate federal student loan forgiveness options and one-time federal cancellation, and help you answer questions about whether you qualify or how to apply. These benefits are only available on federal student loans.
Today, the Bureau Student Loan Ombudsman released a report analyzing complaints the CFPB has received from private student loan borrowers. According to the...
Forced collection of Social Security benefits increasingly pushes borrowers into poverty and hardship, undermining the purpose of the Social Security program.
Losing your job can be stressful, and in difficult times it can be hard to keep track of the decisions you need to make for your money. Our list and worksheets can help.
Chairman Neugebauer, Ranking Member Clay, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the Bureau's extensive and...
Today the Bureau is proposing strong, new federal consumer protections for the prepaid market. The proposal would require prepaid companies to limit...
New Jersey has made great progress on a range of crucial consumer protection issues, from last year’s legislation providing important protections against predatory lending by for-profit schools to building momentum on basic debt collection standards to fighting off efforts to allow problematic earned wage access products.
The two-day conference consisted of six panels of researchers presenting their work in various areas of consumer finance with members of the CFPB’s Office of Research serving as discussants.
If you're considering student loans to help pay for your education, you're not alone.
