CFPB plays up auto finance complaints, from Automotive News.
A new report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau covering more than three years of complaints by military service members shows that although gripes about auto loans were a small part of the mix, they were a large part of the CFPB’s enforcement actions.
In the report released last week, which lists 29,500 complaints collected from July 2011 to Dec. 31, 2014, there’s no neatly defined category for complaints about auto finance. The best fit for auto-related complaints is a category the bureau calls consumer loan, which accounts for only 5 percent of the total number of complaints.
Within that small number, complaints include items such as “required add-on products,” “trade-in payoff” and complaints about GAP and credit insurance.
For the whole report, the top complaint categories are debt collection (accounting for 39 percent of total complaints), mortgage (24 percent), credit reporting (9 percent), credit card (8 percent) and bank account or service (8 percent). Consumer loan follows at 5 percent. Yet the report prominently highlights actions the CFPB has taken to crack down on auto loans.
