Americans for Financial Reform
March 3, 2026

Letters to the Regulators: AFR Joins Over 50 Consumer, Community, and Civil Rights Groups to Call on the CFPB to Make it Easier, Not Harder to Seek Help with a Financial Problem

View or download a PDF of the letter here.

Federal law requires that agencies like the CFPB periodically evaluate how they are collecting people’s personal information and what barriers are in place to seeking help quickly. The current leadership of the CFPB has used this process to make it more difficult for consumers to file complaints about credit card companies, payday lenders, debt collectors and other firms, rather than reducing the hurdles required to seek help. This letter requests that the current CFPB leadership reverse these harmful changes.