By Karen Blumenthal at [email protected]
What you don’t know might hurt you.
That is a key conclusion that jumps out from a recent Federal Trade Commission study on errors in credit reports, those all-important records that determine whether we get credit, what interest rates we pay and sometimes whether we get a job.
In the FTC study, 262 of the 1,001 people who reviewed their credit reports spotted at least one potential “material” mistake, such as a credit-card account that wasn’t theirs or a late payment that they didn’t believe was late…
What you don’t know might hurt you.
That is a key conclusion that jumps out from a recent Federal Trade Commission study on errors in credit reports, those all-important records that determine whether we get credit, what interest rates we pay and sometimes whether we get a job.
In the FTC study, 262 of the 1,001 people who reviewed their credit reports spotted at least one potential “material” mistake, such as a credit-card account that wasn’t theirs or a late payment that they didn’t believe was late…
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