Welcome to the California connection for March 30.

From CCB President Judy Wilkinson:

I’m delighted to inform you that Nicole is healing from her scratched cornea and will return to us on schedule next Monday. Even though she is officially on leave this week, she has still sent me a number of emails and texts on important time-sensitive CCB matters.

I want to publicly thank Nicole for her hard work and dedication.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Resource And A Major Opportunity:

From the CCB advocacy committee:
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) www.consumerfinance.gov/empowerment/ provides important resources designed to address the specific issues faced by people with disabilities. And it presents these resources in several accessible formats.

CFPB also gives us a real opportunity to complain about abuses by financial firms. Blind and low vision people may be at especially high risk as more and more of our banking, bill paying, grocery-ordering and other business is migrating to the cloud, and as we advance in age. CFPB needs to know how all consumers are doing, but especially us.

Please check their website, including their resources such as the Toolkit. And if you have a complaint or a story that sheds light on the complexities of money these days, or that demonstrates the particular problems with financial institutions faced by blind and low vision people, please file your complaint or share your story with them.

Thank you for reading or listening