According to "Mistakes Do Happen: A Look at Errors in Consumer Credit Reports " a recent report by public issues watchdog U.S.Public Interest Research Group (USPRIG.) There is a one in four chance your credit report contains an error serious enough to cause you to be denied credit. 79 percent of credit reports examined in a recent survey contained either serious errors or mistakes of some kind.
54 percent of the credit reports contained personal demographic identifying information that was misspelled, long outdated, belonged to a stranger. or was other wise incorrect.
According to Ed Mierzwinski, USPRIG Consumer Program Director, "It is outrageous that inaccurate credit reports could damage one-in-four consumers’s ability to buy a home, rent an apartment, obtain credit, open a bank account, or even get a job."
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