Friday, September 30. 2005Getting my Free Credit Report
This week I remembered that a recent U.S. law allows me to obtain my credit report for free once a year, so I tried it.
The site you use is annualcreditreport.com. You have to provide a good bit of info, including your Social Security number. Then it gives you the option of getting your report from one or all of the three companies they list. I decided to get them all at once because I'm sure I wouldn't remember to do this more than once a year anyway. At this point, I was expecting to just receive something in the mail from each of the credit reporting companies, but instead I was able to view the reports online and print them. Unfortunately, they implemented this by making you go to each company's website and view/print the reports one at a time. Not only did this add to the time involved, but for each company, you had to figure out their unique interface. On each site, you had to authenticate yourself by answering a few questions about your financial situtation. But after that, the experience on each site was pretty different.
So I guess if you live in the U.S., you might as well try to get your free credit report, but be prepared to spend some time and hassle in the process.
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