This Valentine’s Day, Tell Congress You’d Really Love Access To A Free, Reliable Credit Score

Excerpt from: The Consumerist  (click for full article)

 

Sure, there are those sites that promise you a “free” score, but they generally require you to sign up for at least a short trial of some sort of subscription service.

And even then, that credit score you get from any of the bureaus may be quite different from the ones that lenders use to help decide your creditworthiness, as the ones you can purchase from TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian are dubbed “educational” scores and may not fully reflect the scores seen by lenders.

That’s why our colleagues at Consumers Union’s DefendYourDollars.org have created a letter-writing template that allows you to let your members of the House and Senate know how you feel on the topic.