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How to dispute credit report

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Don’t reckon yourself alone if you have recently found that you need to dispute credit report errors. Result of a study shows that there are errors on almost 75 percent of credit reports and one out of four credit reports have such errors as cast negative impact on your credit score. It’s a fact that credit report agencies have to manage data for millions of people daily they rely on creditors and lenders to get precise information.

But the Fair Credit Reporting Act serves to protect your best interest as a consumer. It mandates that if there is a dispute credit report error, the erroneous information must be acknowledged and removed within 30 days.

However, the question you can you go about fixing errors on your credit report? Your step is to collect a copy of all three of your credit reports from the three reporting agencies including Equifax, Experian and Trans Union. After getting them, you need to compare the information on all three reports as it’s possible that some information to be included on one report but not on the others.

If you have reviewed your credit report and found some errors, you need to contact the credit reporting agencies in writing. You must highlight these errors and attach a copy to your dispute letter. It is quite important to keep a record of everything you send to these agencies as you may need to follow up when follow up.

To validate your claim, the credit report agency is obliged to contact the lender/credit to clarify the negative information. If the creditor/lender fail to come up with conclusive evidence to support their claim, these information will be removed from your report immediately.

You can easily and successfully dispute information on your credit report by aiming at the negative information to be removed to make your credit report look better as well as raising your credit score. Good news for you is that you can dispute your credit report in three easy steps.

  1. Ask for copies of your credit report from three credit agencies online. You may find different information in these different credit reports and that’s why a comparison is essential. You can identify the errors after reviewing these reports.
  2. Now after making comparison, your next step is to write credit report dispute letters to these credit reporting agencies. You can highlight and question the errors you have noted on your credit report. You must choose a registered mail to send your correspondence and keep the record of everything you include with your letter. If you dispute your credit report online, you can easily trace your letter with a tracking number
  3. Usually credit bureaus take 45-60 days to review your claim as they have to get your data together and rule on the dispute you must wait for the response from the credit bureaus.

If you dispute your credit report online, you may get the desired results straight away, but you need to keep very good records of information you provide to the credit agencies.

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