If you are considering retiring early and tapping into your retirement benefits, here are resources from the CFPB to help you weigh your options.
Ideas and materials for the patrons who use your library
Payment apps that allow consumers and businesses to quickly send and send money also often provide the ability for users to store those funds. Funds stored on these platforms often lack deposit insurance coverage and are at risk of loss in the event of financial distress or failure of the entity operating the payment platform.
We began accepting consumers' credit card complaints on July 21, 2011 and we now accept complaints about mortgages, bank accounts and services, private...
On June 11, 2013, we released a report that raises concerns about the ability of consumers to anticipate and avoid overdraft costs on their checking accounts.
Press Availability with Acting Director Mick Mulvaney.
This technical report describes the development and scoring procedures of the CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale.
This report analyzes banking and credit access across eight states in the southern region of the U.S, particularly branch presence and bank account access, and capital access such as mortgage lending.
This snapshot provides an overview of the debt collection complaints we received from older consumers from July 2013 to September 2014.
We began accepting consumer complaints on July 21, 2011 and we now accept complaints related to credit cards, mortgages, bank accounts and services, private...
Our data point reports are prepared by our Office of Research to provide an evidence-based perspective on consumer financial markets, consumer behavior, and regulations to inform the public discourse.
Our data point reports are prepared by our Office of Research to provide an evidence-based perspective on consumer financial markets, consumer behavior, and...
This report highlights the CFPB’s research on rural consumers as well as contextual information from other agencies on the consumer finance challenges faced by rural communities.
Over 1.2 million adults ages 60 and older lost a spouse in 2019. This spotlight describes the characteristics and financial circumstances of older surviving spouses.
The CFPB's Office of Financial Empowerment issued a Request for Information (RFI) to find out more about mobile financial services and how low-income and...
Student loan debt is having an increasing impact on older Americans, according to CFPB research.
This data spotlight examines the characteristics and experiences of the 3.2 million older adults living in mobile homes in 2022.
In recent years, the payment space has moved from an ecosystem with clear constraints and established players to a rapidly evolving environment.
The 2022 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) report on college banking, including credit card and deposit product agreements.
The 2021 Financial Literacy Annual Report details the CFPB’s financial literacy strategy and activities to improve the financial literacy of consumers. Overall, this report describes the CFPB’s efforts in a broad range of financial literacy areas relevant to consumers’ financial lives.
