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Category: Blog Four strategies to help youth achieve financial capability
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at the Youth Financial Capability Town Hall
Category: Report Report and Recommendations: Fighting Elder Financial Exploitation through Community Networks
Category: Blog Four ways to support your community’s fight against elder financial exploitation
Category: Press release Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Report Finds Hundreds of Counties Nationwide Fighting Elder Financial Abuse with Community Efforts
Category: Blog CFPB announces 30 new Your Money, Your Goals partners to help low-income consumers
Category: Blog Inmigrantes enfrentan desafíos financieros únicos
Category: Blog Immigrants facing unique financial challenges
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on FINRA Foundation National Financial Capability Study Release
Category: Blog Don’t get taken for a ride; protect yourself from an auto loan you can’t afford
Category: Blog Guard against fraud and make better financial decisions for Military Consumer Protection Month
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Category: Press release CFPB Monthly Complaints Snapshot Spotlights Credit Reporting Complaints
Category: Report Monthly Complaint Report, Vol. 11
Category: Blog Protecting one’s credit while in the criminal justice system
Category: Op-ed Making the most of your tax refund
Category: Blog Creating your own financial rules to live by
Category: Report Recommendations and report for financial institutions on preventing and responding to elder financial exploitation
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights: Winter 2016
Category: Blog Guides to help you open and manage your checking account
Category: Blog You have the right to request your consumer reports
Category: Blog 6 tips for using your credit card this season
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Tool to Help Measure Financial Well-Being
Category: Report Measuring financial well-being: A guide to using the CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale
Category: Blog Beware of scams targeting older people during the holidays
Category: Press release CFPB Orders Subprime Credit Reporting Company and Owner to Pay $8 Million Penalty for Illegal Practices
Category: Blog Fall 2015 rulemaking agenda
Category: Report 2015 Financial literacy annual report
Category: Blog Here’s how coaching can help you meet your financial goals
Category: Blog What’s that chip doing on my credit card?
Category: Report Increasing saving at tax time and promising practices for the field
Category: Blog Servicemembers: Protecting your credit when you’re away from home
Category: Press release CFPB Monthly Complaint Snapshot Spotlights Credit Reporting Complaints
Category: Blog This month’s Complaint Report: Credit reporting issues
Category: Blog Americans with disabilities have the right to improve their financial lives
Category: Blog Removing an outdated bankruptcy from a credit report: Jorge’s story
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the ROADS to Financial Independence Launch
Category: Blog Working to improve the financial lives of people with disabilities
Category: Press release CFPB Launches Financial Well-Being Initiative Targeted To People With Disabilities
Category: Blog The launch of the CFPB financial coaching initiative
Category: Blog Fact-check your specialty consumer report
Category: Press release CFPB Report Finds 26 Million Consumers Are Credit Invisible
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Credit invisibles
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Credit Reporting Press Call
Category: Blog Here’s what we’re hearing from Servicemembers and their families
Category: Testimony Written Testimony of David Silberman Before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
Category: Blog More financial empowerment tools for communities
Category: Blog Millions of consumers will now have access to credit scores and reports through nonprofit counselors
Category: Blog You’ve got goals for your life—and some of them take money to achieve
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at the Consumer Advisory Board Meeting
Category: Press release CFPB Reports That More Than 50 Million Credit Card Consumers Have Access to Free Credit Scores
Category: Report Consumer voices on credit reports and scores
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action to Shut Down Sham Credit Card
Category: Report Financial well-being: The goal of financial education
Category: Op-ed What we really need to be better off financially
Category: Blog 4 elements define personal financial well-being
Category: Blog Tax season is here
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Student loan debt relief companies may cost you thousands of dollars and drive you further into debt
Category: Blog Seven ways to keep medical debt in check
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action to End Student “Debt Relief” Scams
Category: Report Consumer credit reports: A study of medical and non-medical collections
Category: Blog Here’s how medical debt hurts your credit report
Category: Blog Food for thought at your Thanksgiving table
Category: Blog Veterans: Take advantage of student loan forgiveness, but don’t let it damage your credit
Category: Speech CFPB Director Richard Cordray’s Prepared Lecture on Economic Rights as Civil Rights at Michigan State University
Category: Blog Forum on access to checking accounts
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray at Forum on Access to Checking Accounts
Category: Blog Encontrando la ayuda que necesitas, en el idioma que entiendes – La historia de Higinio
Category: Blog Getting the help you need, in the language you understand – Higinio’s story
Category: Blog We can help you fight improper actions by debt collectors: Venida’s story
Category: Press release CFPB Sues Online Payday Lender for Cash-Grab Scam
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a forum on access to checking accounts
Category: Blog Reminder for steps you can take if you think your credit or debit card data was hacked
Category: Press release CFPB Takes Action Against Auto Finance Company for Distorting Borrower Credit Reports
Category: Consumer advisories Consumer advisory: Don’t fall for a foreclosure relief scam or bogus legal help
Category: Blog Helping build financial capability across America
Category: Report 2014 Financial literacy annual report
Category: Report Consumer Response: A snapshot of complaints received
Category: Office of Research Publication Report on the use of remittance histories in credit scoring
Category: Press release CFPB Study Finds Medical Debt Overly Penalizes Consumer Credit Scores
Category: Speech Prepared Remarks of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the Medical Debt Study Press Call
Category: Office of Research Publication Data point: Medical debt and credit scores
Category: Blog How to protect vulnerable children from credit reporting problems
Category: Press release CFPB Releases Tools To Protect Foster Care Children From Credit Reporting Problems
Category: Report Credit reporting complaint snapshot
Category: Blog Now you have better options to dispute a credit report error
Category: Press release CFPB Calls on Top Credit Card Companies to Make Credit Scores Available to Consumers
Category: Blog Set a goal, make a plan, and save automatically
Category: Blog Save the date: Join us for a Consumer Advisory Board meeting in Washington, D.C.
Category: Blog Getting a grip on income tax season
Category: Blog What’s the deal with health care credit cards? Four things you should know
Category: Press release CFPB Issues Consumer Advisory on Industry’s Data Breach
Category: Blog Four steps you can take if you think your credit or debit card data was hacked
Category: Report Rigorous evaluation of financial capability strategies: Why, when, and how
Category: Blog How much money is spent on advertising financial products?
Category: Report Empowering low income and economically vulnerable consumers
Category: Blog Trick-or-treating for your money
Category: Press release CFPB Puts Companies on Notice About Duty to Investigate Consumer Credit Report Disputes
Category: Blog A federal partnership to increase financial capability for workers with disabilities
Category: Report Financial literacy annual report