Section 1013(b)(3)(A) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act or Act) requires the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (âthe Bureauâ) to facilitate the coordinated collection, monitoring, and response to consumer complaints regarding certain financial products and services. The Consumer Financial Protection Act further provides for consumer complaint information sharing between the Bureau and State and Federal agencies (âAgenciesâ) and for consumer complaint sharing and reporting to Congress. To fulfill these mandates, the Bureau has developed separate portals for Agencies and Congressional users as part of its secure web portal offerings (the âGovernment Portalâ and the âCongressional Portal,â respectively).
Through the Government Portal, Agencies can view consumer-submitted complaint data in a user-friendly format that allows easy identification of complaints currently active in the Bureau process, complaints referred to a prudential federal regulator, and other closed/archived complaints. This portal includes features for Agencies to export selected complaint data and search by company, consumer name, consumer financial product and more. This portal also allows Agencies to identify whether a named company has responded to a complaint and view the company closure response category.
The Congressional Portal has some of the same capabilities as the Government Portal and provides members of Congress and authorized congressional office staff with the ability to view consumer complaints they submit on behalf of their constituents with the consumerâs express written authorization for the release of their personal information. The Congressional Portal only displays information about complaints submitted by the individual congressional office.
The Bureau has made modifications to the form and reassessed the burden on respondents. Accordingly, the Bureau is reducing the estimated response time from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for initial intake.
The Bureau has also re-estimated the annual responses. The Bureau has re-estimated downward the annual number of congressional offices and other government users who will complete this form for the first time (i.e., initial intake). Additionally, the Bureau has re-estimated downward the number of revised Government Boarding Forms submitted annually. These re-estimates are based on recent experience and information gathered in the course of boarding entities and utilizing this form.
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;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.