You can get your Equifax credit report free one or more times in an year. You can buy it directly from Equifax. You can access your Equifax credit report instantly online. You can dispute any wrong information on your credit report by filing a dispute with Equifax either instantly online or by sending them a letter. You can file for identity theft protection, put a security freeze on your credit report and even check your FICO credit score from Equifax.
Your Equifax credit report is one of the most important credit reports including the other two from the other national bureaus. Lenders commonly used credit reports from the three national bureaus Experian, Equifax and TranUnion. Since different lenders may be using credit reports from different credit bureaus it is better to you to manage and maintain credit reports at all the three national credit bureaus.
Ordering Your Equifax Credit Report
The first thing that you need to learn is how to order your Equifax credit report first of the following are the methods of ordering your credit report from Equifax first of
Get a free copy of your Equifax credit report by logging on to www.annualcreditreport.com. This website gives you the credit report that is maintained has been mandated by the federal law. According to the laws laid down by the fair credit reporting act you can access a copy of your credit report from each of the three national credit bureaus for free once every year. You can also order your annual Equifax credit report by calling 18773228228 or by mailing in a request form a stop
You can also purchase your Equifax credit report directly from the Equifax website. Buying the credit report from Equifax will cost you $11. Equifax also allows you to access your credit report under other circumstances that provide the consumer to be provided with a free credit report under the fair credit reporting act. These circumstances include being denied for credit, being on public welfare, seeking employment or been a victim of identity theft.
You can access your Equifax credit report when you sign up with any of the three in one credit report offers that are available from several online vendors will stop. Three in one credit report offers allow you to view your credit report from all three credit bureaus at once by signing up for a single subscription.
Disputing errors on Equifax Credit Report
Any credit report can contain errors. Errors can result when lenders provided wrong information to the credit bureaus or forget to update the accounts of their consumers. Errors can also happen during transcription of information by the credit bureaus before putting it on to the credit report. Mistakes can happen while reporting Social Security numbers, spellings of the name as well as transposing numbers and digits. On reviewing your Equifax credit report if you find that your report contains mistakes and errors you can dispute these errors with the credit bureau as is your right under the fair credit reporting act. Any information that can be substantiated by the lender has to be updated or remove as you request. A credit bureau has 30 days to launch an investigation an uprising of the results of the dispute first of. Usually when you order your credit report online you are also provided access to a section from where you can dispute the errors on your credit report. The websites of all the three national credit bureaus have a section of filing disputes from where you can go through the process quite simply if you have a recent copy of your personal credit report.
You can also dispute the credit report by Equifax through postal mail. You have to write them a credit dispute letter, highlight the errors on your credit report and send any supporting documents in favor of your claim to Equifax credit report dispute address:
Equifax Information Services LLC
P.O. Box 740256
Atlanta, GA 30374 – 0256
Filing Identity Theft on Equifax Credit Report
as with any other credit bureau if you believe that you have been a victim of identity theft you should let Equifax know immediately so that you can have your credit reports flagged to prevent further incident. A fraud alert on your credit report will let the lender no that they should take extra caution to confirm the identity of the person whose applying for credit the next time they will your credit report of purpose of approval of credit. Fraud alerts generally last 90 days or one year for active duty military personnel were sent overseas.
Can easily follow the process of a fraud alert or security freeze on your credit report online.
You can also place a fraud alert on your Equifax credit report by calling them on 18005256 to 85 or by sending in our request in writing to P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374 – 024.
Checking Your Credit Score Will Equifax
Equifax also offers the fico credit score which is the most commonly used credit score owed by lenders and consumers. You can purchase your fico score based on the information present on your Equifax credit report from myFICO.com. However Equifax also offers their own credit score which is known as VantageScore. VantageScore has gained popularity to lenders as it is supposed to be a more accurate credit score and takes into consideration the information present on the credit files of all the three national credit bureaus. It is only score that is meant to give the same results across the three different credit bureaus provided the information present on them is the same.