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The federal government goes out of its way to improve customer service in the US credit market. One of the ways in which it does this is by ensuring that the consumers are provided with a free of charge credit report at the end of every fiscal year. This has gone a long way in ensuring that consumers are not cheated out of their scores, hence ending up posting unimpressive score ratings that undermine their ability to access finance and loans from lenders. The federal credit reporting act stipulates that it is unlawful for a credit bureau to fail to enlighten the consumers through the yearly credit checks. These yearly checks contain information that is grouped into four categories. The first category is for the consumer’s identity details and under this, you will be asked to give your full names, date of birth, social security number and you may have to answer a secret question that only you know the details of, and no one else. Such is done to make sure that you are who you claim to be in order to curb cases of identity theft and credit card fraud.

The second category consists of details of your credit information like your banks and the credit card companies that you utilize the services of. In the third group, you are supposed to give details of your public credit record information like whether you have ever been declared bankrupt or not. Lastly, you are required to fill up information on any new debts you might have incurred in that year. It is imperative that you give out only the correct information as the same information will be used by your lenders to check your credit worthiness in the future. On the credit report too are displayed your credit scores. These are awarded to you according to how frequently you have borrowed credit with your credit card and how promptly you paid back. This means that the more times you borrow and pay back in good time, the more chances you have of building up on your credit score. If you attain the mark of excellent, it means that you can be granted a loan of any amount by lenders at low interest rate. Those at the bottom of the ladder may get a loan, but at very brutal terms and high rates of interest. That is why it is important to follow up on the government credit check.