Code: 4.2.1 · Adults
Consumer rights and responsibilities
Descriptors
Knowledge
What you can do at this level
- Kdigitaldaily-lifelarge-majority
Aware of one's rights and obligations when purchasing a financial product or service
- Kdigitaldaily-life
Aware of one's consumer rights related to e-commerce and online transactions, such as full price disclosure and conditions for exchanges / returns / refunds
- Kdaily-lifelarge-majority
Aware of ones rights in the event of unauthorised or improperly executed payment
- Kresiliencelarge-majority
Knows and understands the rights and responsibilities of consumers who fail to pay specific bills, including taxes and utilities
- Kdigital
Knows the legal right to contest a decision taken by an algorithm
Skill
What you can do at this level
- Sdaily-lifelarge-majority
Takes into account individual rights and responsibilities as a financial consumer
- Sdaily-lifelarge-majority
Reads the small print when choosing financial products
- Slarge-majority
Informs financial service providers of changes in circumstance where relevant or contractually obliged to do so
- Sdaily-life
Keeps statements and contracts, and records conversations and actions relating to potential maltreatment from financial service providers
- Sresiliencedaily-life
Ensures that creditors are aware of all relevant factors that may impact repayments
- Sresiliencedaily-lifelarge-majority
Applies for help to pay or defer specific bills in times of need (where available)
Attitude
What you can do at this level
- Adaily-lifelarge-majority
Values the rights of financial consumers
- Alarge-majority
Motivated to research and exercise one's own rights as financial consumer
- Learning outcome types
- K — What you need to know: theoretical understanding and factual information.
- S — What you can do: practical and technical abilities.
- A — How you approach things: values, dispositions and behaviours.