It's not uncommon to find inaccurate or
outdated information on credit reports.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act, otherwise known as the FCRA, states that it is the responsibility of the company / person reporting the information to fix any incorrect or
outdated information on your credit report.
Not exact matches
Either way, you should always remove any errors or
outdated information from your
credit report — regardless of the actual effect
on your score — as soon as you discover them.
A single late payment might bring down your
credit score, a clerical error may lead to inaccurate or
outdated information being
reported, and an identity thief can wreak havoc
on your
credit report.
If
outdated information remains
on your
credit report, you can use the dispute process to have them removed.
They use the Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) which is a federal law designed to protect you from being «slandered» by creditors, collectors, and credit reporting agencies themselves from having outdated, erroneous, misleading, or inaccurate information on your credit r
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) which is a federal law designed to protect you from being «slandered» by creditors, collectors, and credit reporting agencies themselves from having outdated, erroneous, misleading, or inaccurate information on your credi
Reporting Act (FCRA) which is a federal law designed to protect you from being «slandered» by creditors, collectors, and
credit reporting agencies themselves from having outdated, erroneous, misleading, or inaccurate information on your credit r
credit reporting agencies themselves from having outdated, erroneous, misleading, or inaccurate information on your credi
reporting agencies themselves from having
outdated, erroneous, misleading, or inaccurate
information on your
credit r
credit report.
Credit reporting bureaus may have false or outdated information on file that might unjustly lower a business credit r
Credit reporting bureaus may have false or
outdated information on file that might unjustly lower a business
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credit rating.
The quickest and easiest way to raising your
credit score is to check for errors or
outdated information on your annual
credit reports.
Fortunately, by law you are allowed to dispute any
information listed
on your
credit report that you deem inaccurate, erroneous,
outdated, incomplete, etc..
Although in the case of the 3 exceptions above the
credit reporting agencies are allowed to include
information which would be
outdated on a standard
credit report, they are probably not going to choose to do so.
You have the right to contest
information on your
credit report that is false and / or
outdated.
Depending
on the
credit bureaus to automatically remove
outdated information from
credit reports is a mistake.