Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Public Law No. 111-203, the Bureau's Office of Financial Education ("OFE") is responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to improve the financial literacy of consumers that includes measurable goals and initiatives, in consultation with the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, consistent with the National Strategy for Financial Literacy. In addition, the Office of Financial Protection for Older Americans (OA) within the CFPB is charged with conducting research to identify methods and strategies to educate and counsel seniors, and developing goals for programs that provide seniors with financial literacy and counseling.
The CFPB intends to collect quantitative data through surveys with working-age (age 18-61) and older American (age 62 and older) consumers in order to develop and refine survey instruments that will enable the CFPB to reliably and accurately measure adult consumers' financial well-being. The primary anticipated data collection strategy is through internet-based surveys. The core objective of the data collection is to iteratively test, refine, and produce valid and reliable measures of consumer financial well-being that will create a strong, standardized basis for setting measurable goals, and evaluating financial education strategies and programs.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
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