I spent. [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a racist of the committee at any time by this hearing is entitled semi annual report of the bureau of financial protection. Without objection all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair or inclusion in the record. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Thank you director for being here today. As the director you wear a lot of hats. You are a member of the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Financial Stability oversight consult. This committee spent a lot of time understanding how regulators reacted to the failures of Silicon Valley macon signature bank. Given both the fcic have equal rolls in the failures i am looking forward to hear about your involvement in the decisionmaking process. As we said the fdics chair grunberg and pfister bar testified before this committee there
We will call the subcommittee to order. Welcome to todays hearing on Social Security administrations role in combating Identity Fraud. When the Social Security administration began issuing numbers in 1936 they were used track workers earnings and the Social Security Program Changed dramatically and we now have a Social Security number is part of the american identity. Ssn are used for a number of reasons, required by law, others not. If you want to buy a home, a credit card you need a Social Security number but after countless data breaches is clear Social Security numbers are far from safe and far from a secret. There were a data breaches including Social Security numbers so it should come as no surprise the Social Security number is still an attractive partner for postures and Identity Theft is a real threat to millions of americans. And that includes our children and our seniors. In 2021 roughly 1. 25 million were the victims of Identity Fraud which cost American Families realtime,
This hearing is just under four hours. I spent. [background noises] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a racist of the committee at any time by this hearing is entitled semi annual report of the bureau of financial protection. Without objection all members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous materials to the chair or inclusion in the record. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement. Thank you director for being here today. As the director you wear a lot of hats. You are a member of the federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Financial Stability oversight consult. This committee spent a lot of time understanding how regulators reacted to the failures of Silicon Valley macon signature bank. Given both the fcic have equal rolls in the failures i am looking forward to hear about your involvement in the decisionmaking process. As we said the fdics chair grunberg and pfister ba
Against adam shift for conduct that misleads the american people. Watch live coverage of the house at noon eastern here on cspan. We take you live to testimony from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director khoep a. Hes testifying today on the Digital Economy a Consumer Protection before the House Financial Services committee. We join this in progress. Mr. Sherman credit repair scams are not just annoying television commercials. They charge you a lot of money. They just blanketly contest everything on your Credit Report. Your credit score goes up for a little while until they realize that most of those entries were accurate and it goes back down. What are you doing to deal with the scheme where you get your Credit Report improved for a little while . We are looking hard at all the ways in which consumer Credit Report issues can spawn scams. We have brought a number of Enforcement Actions here. We do work with the federal trade commission, state a. G. s to bring action. We dont want
to balance the books. plus, with the cost of living soaring around the world, global debt has hit a record $300 trillion. so we ll hear from the boss of europe s leading debt collection agency about how it balances the need to recover cash for its clients with people s ability to pay. wherever you rejoining me from around the world. once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. getting old is something that happens to all of us. butjust how are we as individuals and as a society going to pay for it? this year, france has seen high profile and often violent demonstrations about government plans to address exactly that question. but the french aren t alone, across europe as well as in the us and japan and many other countries. our populations are getting older at a time when the global economic system has undergone a series of major shocks. since the second world war global life expectancy has risen steadily, while birth rates fall. in 2019 before the pandemic, the av