The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a federal agency that helps protect consumers from bad actors in the financial services industry. In February 2025, the Trump administration halted work ...

check out the CFPB's list of sample letters. Once you've sent a debt verification request, your debt collector can't contact you again unless it's in response to your letter. Since you are ...

You can file a complaint against a bank using an online CFPB complaint form ... submit an FDIC complaint online and generally expect a response within 60 days. If you're unsure if your bank ...

Prior to these arguments, the bank asserted the CFPB’s amended complaint contained only immaterial changes. According to the bank, while the amended complaint dropped five causes of action ...

In early February, Musk posted “CFPB RIP,” on X, formerly Twitter, with a gravestone emoji. Musk’s death march has begun. The number of consumer complaints being processed by the bureau is ...

On March 13, the CFPB filed an amended complaint against a Texas bank alleging violations of the CFPA, the EFTA, and its implementing Regulation E. The complaint related to a program in which the ...

Matthew Pfaff, chief of staff for CFPB’s Office of Consumer Response, said his office, which completes statutorily required work, handles roughly 350,000 consumer complaints per month.

In other instances, DOGE workers asked CFPB staff about how deeply they could cut operations while adhering to statutory requirements in areas like consumer response, per testimony from CFPB ...