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This week, the CFPB filed a friend-of-the-court brief to ensure people have access to legal protections for their government benefit prepaid cards.

Distribuiremos más de $95 millones a más de 87,000 consumidores perjudicados por la empresa Consumer Advocacy Center Inc., conocida como Premier Student Loan Center.

The CFPB will distribute over $95 million in redress to over 87,000 consumers harmed by a student loan debt relief enterprise operated by Consumer Advocacy...

CFPB issues a notice of intent to make a preemption determination under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA).

This week, CFPB filed a friend-of-the-court brief to protect consumers’ funds from unauthorized withdrawals by credit card companies.

The CFPB recently filed an amicus brief to ensure military families are able to sue creditors that violate the Military Lending Act.

The CFPB is requesting information on ways to improve mortgage refinances and support assistance for homeowners who experience financial disruptions.

At the CFPB, we are proud of the work that we have done to make our systems mobile-friendly and are committed to doing more. Read more about our mobile-first strategy.

Banks and credit unions should ensure you’re getting timely responses to your banking questions. To help ensure they’re meeting your needs, the CFPB is asking for you to share your experiences, good or bad.

Far too many households and businesses continue to lack fair and equitable access to credit. Through SPCPs, lenders can better serve historically disadvantaged individuals and communities.

The CFPB is hiring product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and more to help detect and prevent unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices in financial markets.

Beginning on July 5, the CFPB is accepting applications to serve on our four advisory committees, which provide insight and advice as we carry out our work.

The CFPB is working to identify and address the financial needs of immigrant consumers.

The CFPB is seeking public comments about debt that workers take on to pay for trainings, equipment, or other items or services required by their employer.

At the CFPB, we are committed to delivering trustworthy, impartial, accurate and timely information to the people we serve. To maintain this commitment we provide clear, impartial answers to hundreds of financial questions on Ask CFPB. Ask CFPB offers information you can use to make more informed choices about your money. Ask CFPB helps more than 6 million people do so each year and has helped more than 43 million lifetime users.

This report describes our fair lending activities in supervision, enforcement, guidance and rulemaking, interagency coordination, and outreach and education for calendar year 2021.

This week, CFPB filed a friend-of-the-court brief to protect borrowers' rights under federal law to obtain vital information about their mortgage loans from loan servicers.

We aim to root our work in research and experience from the people we serve. We are excited to unveil our homepage redesign, based on feedback from dozens of people.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a launched a new initiative to focus on financial issues facing rural America. Our effort will initially focus on rural banking deserts, discriminatory and predatory agricultural credit, and manufactured housing.

In response to concerns from workers about financial risk and harm from employers, the CFPB is looking into the consumer financial products or services that workers face in the workplace.

As the economy recovers, the CFPB is closely monitoring auto lending to ensure the market is fair, transparent, and competitive – and is working for American consumers.

The CFPB joins with other regulators in asking The Appraisal Foundation to clearly instruct appraisers about the federal law forbidding appraisal discrimination.

Your consumer reporting data can affect your ability to get a loan, job, or apartment. Learn how to request, review, and freeze your consumer reports.

From 2018 to 2020, the CFPB estimates that Americans paid roughly $120 billion per year in credit card interest and fees. That works out to about $1,000 per year for every American household.

This week CFPB partnered with other agencies to ensure that American servicemembers enjoy the full protections of the Military Lending Act.