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All credit card consumers are mandated to a free credit report from the credit card bureaus. These are supposed to come after a given period of time and it could well be on yearly, half yearly or quarterly basis as the government of the respective country that is involved will have mandated. In the USA for example, the Federal Fair Trade Credit Reporting act requires that all credit card consumers in the US be entitled to a free credit card report from their respective credit card bureaus. This was instituted into the law to make sure that consumers are protected from identity loss and credit card theft. The law also does stipulate the kind of data that should be covered in the credit card report. This is mostly raw data concerning all your transactions, when and where you made them plus the time of the day that you made the transactions. Before, credit card reports could not be given for free and the consumer had first to fulfill some role that would allow them to access their credit report. The consequence was that the cases of credit card fraud and identity theft were constantly on the rise.

Free credit report from the government is not only meant to give you a look at how you spent your money or where your money went into, but it is also meant to educate you on how credit cards work and how you can get the best out of them. They also educate you on how to make the most out of free credit card score offers from the various credit card bureaus. Governments the world over have put in their websites information on how one can easily access free credit card reports. All one has to do now is to log online from their internet connected computer and they get to see their report. Sometimes you can also contact the credit card agencies directly and ask for your credit report. However, this might cost you some money because the law says that one accesses the credit report from the government website only as given. Among the details that the credit card agency might ask you to supply them with are your names, date of birth and your physical address. They require other details too to confirm that you are who you claim to be. It is good to remember that a free credit report does not mean that you are entitled to a free point or score. Watch out that no one tries to be wise and sell you a credit report whereas you are entitled to a free one.