Dept of consumer and worker protection to report on public use of the department’s financial empowerment centers and student debt distress in the city.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code, in relation to requiring the department of consumer and worker protection to report on public use of the department’s financial empowerment centers and student debt distress in the city

This bill requires the Department of Consumer and Worker Protections to report on the public’s use of its Financial Empowerment Centers, including statistics for services contracted out to external providers. The bill also requires the Department to report on student loan debt distress in New York City and to make the underlying data used for such report available on the New York City Open Data portal.