The Role of the Federal Government in Financial Education for Older Americans: The New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

In the wake of the recent economic crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by the Dodd-Frank Act to enforce federal consumer protection laws and to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices. One of the special populations singled out for focused at...

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Published inGenerations (San Francisco, Calif.) Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 101 - 104
Main Author Humphrey, III, Hubert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco American Society on Aging 01.07.2012
Subjects
Consumer protection
Consumerism
Consumers
Credit unions
Economic conditions
Economic Crises
Education
Federal Government
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Older people
Original
Population
Protection
Regulation of financial institutions
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Summary:In the wake of the recent economic crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by the Dodd-Frank Act to enforce federal consumer protection laws and to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices. One of the special populations singled out for focused attention is older Americans. In this article, Hubert H. (Skip) Humphrey III, who heads the Office of Financial Protection for Older Americans in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, explains what his office plans to do on behalf of Americans ages 62 and older.
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