The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan ...

Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The CFPB's Consumer Complaint Program ‒ established in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that created the agency ‒ serves as a clearinghouse for consumers to submit complaints ...

During a lengthy court hearing on Monday, CFPB's Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez gave a full sworn account of the chaos and confusion that has consumed the federal agency that was set up to ...

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the CFPB and acting CFPB Director Russell Vought to "not terminate any CFPB employee, except for cause related to the specific employee's performance or ...

Consumers will have to be their own advocates while the fate of the CFPB remains in limbo. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, was created in 2011 in response to the 2008 financial ...

No matter how much money you have—even if you have not suffered from fraud or deceptive practices—it’s important to understand the mission of the CFPB and learn more about how this agency ...

Employees were left puzzled following instructions from Russell Vought, the acting director of CFPB, last month explicitly ordering them to stop working altogether and saying that “any urgent ...

A protester holds a sign supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Nathan Howard/Reuters) Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate ...

From trying to get medical debt off credit reports to going after a student loan servicer, the work of the CFPB has touched many aspects of Americans’ lives. But its critics say the bureau ...

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson blocked the CFPB from terminating additional employees after the Trump administration this week fired dozens of agency workers, including an entire team of ...