H.R. 2023

Women's Retirement Protection Act

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Sec. 5. Access to independent consumer information and understanding

(a) Definitions. In this section—

(1) the term consumer means any person who purchases or acquires any goods, products, services, or credit related to the retirement or later life economic security of the consumer; and

(2) the term financial product or service provider means any person who engages in the business of providing any retirement financial product or service to any consumer.

(b) Required link to consumer awareness information. In any offer for the sale, exchange, or other transfer of a retirement financial product or service to a consumer carried out by a financial product or service provider, such provider shall provide, in a manner consistent with subsection (c), an easily accessible link to the website of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (referred to in this section as the CFPB) at which the consumer may access information, literature, guides, programs, tools, strategies, or any other resource produced by the CFPB or other Federal agency relating to retirement planning or later life economic security.

(c) Determination. In order to ensure that the requirement under subsection (b) is effectively carried out, the Financial Literacy and Education Commission shall determine and publish on its website the appropriate link to the CFPB’s website for access to the CFPB’s and other Federal agencies’ consumer education materials, the preferred format of such link, and any accompanying description of the CFPB and the consumer education materials associated with such link.