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In the United States, your financial credit information can be crucial to your well being. Your credit history can
be tied to the interest rate your get on future lines of credit (car loan or home mortgage, credit cards, store credit),
utility rates (electrical, gas), job prospects, and much more. Businesses are using credit information more and more
as a tool to determine not only fiscal responsibility, but also behavior predictors. It is important to verify that the
credit information that others are looking at is accurate. The federal government set up a new law in 2004 requiring the
three big credit reporting companies:
877-576-5734
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888-397-3742
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800-680-7289
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You get a free credit report from each credit reporting agency once a year. It is your choice if you would like to do this
all at once for comparison purposes, or to order them individually throughout the year. There is only one place that you can
order your credit report online: Click here.
It is the credit reporting agencies who are acting as the source of information for credit card offers via the mail. Now
there is a way to remove yourself from these offers:
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