Mark your calendar to join the Bureau for a
day-long symposium exploring challenges many consumers face in accessing
credit
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As part of the Bureau’s commitment to engage
stakeholders in active dialogue about key issues, the Bureau recently held
three roundtables to gather feedback about the Requests for Information the
Bureau recently issued
The Department of Education is sending letters to veterans with severe
disabilities notifying them that they may be eligible for a tax-free discharge
of their outstanding student loans
Scammers are constantly finding new ways to steal money
from their victims, and anyone can potentially be a target
New research report detailing how borrowers are paying off their student
loans, what they do after, and what it might mean for their personal finances
and the broader economy
The BancorpSouth Settlement Administrator recently
mailed packets to identified consumers with instructions for how to take part
in the settlement
In 2016, the Bureau released the Building Blocks to Help Youth Achieve
Financial Capability: A new model and recommendations, which describes where
and when children and young adults acquire the foundations of financial
capability
Learn what the Bureau is doing to prevent elder
financial exploitation in communities across the country
This report finds that aggregate end-of-year consumer credit card
borrowing roughly follows end-of-year retail expenditure patterns, with
consumer borrowing experiences differing across consumers with different credit
scores and different credit card utilization rates at baseline
This week the Bureau begins the process of transforming the Bureau’s Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement work, which includes transitioning from former modes of outreach, to a new strategy to increase high quality feedback
