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The CFPB designed the Curriculum Review Tool to help educators compare and evaluate financial education curricula within four key areas: content, quality, utility, and efficacy. The goal of this tool is to allow educators to find and develop the most appropriate and effective financial education curricula for their classroom.

The CFPB’s Managing Someone Else’s Money guides include four guides for four different fiduciary capacities: agents under power of attorney, court-appointed guardians, trustees, and government fiduciaries. Each guide contains information on fiduciary responsibilities and tips on how to spot financial exploitation and avoid scams. Also, each guide includes a “Where to go for help” section with a listing of relevant agencies and service providers. State-specific guides have been developed for six states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, and Virginia.

The SEC offers online publications that help seniors understand the vast array of investment products and how to avoid investment fraud. In-person presentations explain the red flags of investment fraud and how to check the background of investment professionals.

These CFPB toolkits help social service organizations, legal aid providers, and similar groups assist their clients in addressing financial challenges like budgeting, debt, and credit.

This CFPB web page provides parents and caregivers activities and conversation starters to help children develop money skills, habits, and attitudes that can serve them well as adults.

A product of a CFPB and FDIC partnership, Money Smart for Older Adults promotes awareness among older adults and their caregivers on how to prevent elder financial exploitation and encourages advance planning and informed financial decision-making. The materials include a consumer resource guide, available in English and Spanish, and an instructor’s manual that can be used to facilitate training sessions.

This report summarizes the findings from the Federal Reserve Board’s 3rd annual Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), which aims to capture a snapshot of financial and economic well-being of U.S. consumers and identify potential risks to their financial stability. Topics covered include financial well-being, income and savings behaviors, economic preparedness, access to banking and credit, housing decisions, auto lending, education, student loans, and retirement planning.

Following a rigorous research effort to develop a consumer-driven definition of financial well-being, the CFPB developed and tested a set of questions–a “scale”–to measure financial well-being. The scale is designed to allow practitioners and researchers to accurately and consistently quantify, and therefore observe, something that is not directly observable–the extent to which someone’s financial situation and the financial capability that they have developed provide them with security and freedom of choice.

A guide from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help consumers retiring from a traditional pension plan navigate their payout options. The guide gives near-retirees the information they need to understand the trade-offs of taking their pension in a monthly payment or in a lump sum. The guide also provides tips and warnings about how to protect and best manage their lump-sum money.

The Teacher Online Resource Center offers teachers resources from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to help teach children from pre-K through age 20 about money or other financial topics. Also available on the site are videos that illustrate practical ways teachers can integrate core financial education lessons into the classroom. Access to curriculum, videos, and more can be found at www.fdic.gov/teachers.