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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these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.