CFPB: Some People Make Experience Refund Delays This Tax Season
Many people anticipate their tax refund to help cushion holiday expenses, pay essential bills, or build savings. Everyone can begin filing their taxes when tax season begins. However, if you’re claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit , due to a new law , you won’t receive your refund until after February 15, 2017. You can learn…
CFPB: Fall 2016 Rulemaking Calendar
An important part of the CFPB’s statutory mandate from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) is to make rules governing consumer finance markets more effective and to create new rules when warranted. Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, federal agencies must publish regulatory agendas twice a year. As an independent regulatory…
CFPB: Inquiry Launched into Challenges Consumer Face in Using and Securing Sharing Access to their Digital Financial Records
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced it is launching an inquiry into the challenges consumers face in accessing, using, and securely sharing their financial records. As part of the inquiry, the CFPB is asking the public for information about how much choice consumers are being given about the use of their…
CFPB: Technology is Changing How People Access their Financial Records
Many new financial innovations rely on people choosing to give a company access to their digital financial records held by another company. If you’re using these kinds of services, we’d love to hear from you. Make your voice heard. By Dan Quan and Will Wade-Gery Across the economy, technological advancements have helped make people’s lives easier and more efficient…
CFPB: Join the 2017 Your Money, Your Goals Cohort
We are recruiting organizations to participate in the 2017 Your Money, Your Goals Cohort and we’d like to encourage you to get involved! We are looking for approximately 30 organizations from around the country who are interested in using the Your Money, Your Goals toolkit to help build the financial capability of the people they serve. We are interested in…
CFPB: First-Ever Project Catalyst Innovation Highlights Report Released
Report Discusses Market Developments with Potential for Consumer-Friendly Innovation Washington, D.C. – Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report highlighting various market developments that have the potential to produce benefits for consumers. These developments are emerging from FinTech startups and traditional financial institutions, and include new products, services, and trends. The report also…
CFPB: Financial Coaching Can Benefit Consumers
We recently released two briefs about financial coaching and how it can benefit consumers. At some point in their financial lives, many consumers need more than access to information — they may also need someone to help them to identify and achieve their financial goals. A financial coach can serve as a capable and trusted…
CFPB: Changes Announced to Senior Leadership
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced leadership changes within the Bureau. The positions being announced today are: the Assistant Director for the Office for Older Americans; the Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Oversight; and the Deputy General Counsel for General Law and Ethics. “I am delighted to announce today’s changes to…
CFPB: New Financial Empowerment Tools for Native Communities
We’re excited to announce the release of Your Money, Your Goals: Focus on Native Communities . This is a companion guide to the Your Money, Your Goals financial empowerment toolkit. It contains additional information, tips, and tools based on the wisdom of tribal staff and organizations that serve native communities. Its goal is to meaningfully connect the content and tools in Your…
CFPB: We’ve Issued a New Rule to Help Protect Consumers Using Prepaid Accounts
Prepaid accounts are one of the newer ways to store and spend your money. These include prepaid cards that you buy in stores or digital wallet accounts that you get online. With most prepaid accounts, you can spend the money you’ve loaded in advance for daily expenses or withdraw cash from an ATM. You can also…