Public Silent on Information Collection Plans to Survey Consumers, Conduct Cognitive Research. More than one week after the public comment period closed on two “generic information collection plans” from the CFPB, there was not a single public comment submitted for the official record, Inside the CFPB discovered when searching the U.S. government’s regulation.gov website. The first GICP had to do with surveys using the Consumer Credit Panel. In order to improve its understanding of how consumers engage with financial markets, the CFPB uses this CCP, a proprietary sample dataset from one of the national credit reporting agencies, as a framework to survey people about their experiences in consumer credit markets. The sample includes approximately 5 million de-identified credit records representing ...