WHY CHECK YOUR CREDIT REPORT?
loan, mortgage or credit card, it can affect your chances of getting the best deals. It can even lead to outright rejection by lenders.
For example, you may have separated from a partner who has since run up debts but, because you have still got a joint account, his or her payment behaviour could be affecting you.
You won't see their credit data on your report but you will find a note of any financial association.
Or you may have shopped around for the best offer, without realising your enquiries have been registered as
multiple applications. These should show as quotation searches. If they are down as applications, lenders could think you are desperate for money, have over-extended yourself or even that a fraud is being planned.
You could even discover applications and credit accounts in your name that you did not ask for.
In that case, your identity may have been used fraudulently.
HOW TO MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR CREDIT REPORT
There is a variety of information held on your credit report from a variety of sources. If any of it is wrong, it could affect your ability to get credit.Here's how to correct the information held on your report…
The electoral roll
If you have registered to vote and your credit file does not show this, please contact the credit reference agencies listed at the bottom of this article and they will investigate the matter.If you have not registered to vote, you may want to contact your local authority about filling in an
electoral registration form.
If you move home you can tell your local authority who will tell credit reference agencies about your change of registration in the course of the year.
Court judgments
If you believe a county court judgment has been recorded incorrectly, you should contact the county court, quoting the case number included on your file. If the judgment was recorded incorrectly the county court will alter their records.Credit reference agencies are told about any such changes within four weeks, but if you give them original
court documents, in the form of a Certificate of Satisfaction or Cancellation, they may be able to change their sooner if necessary.
If you have paid a Scottish Decree, you should send Registry Trust (address below) a receipt or a letter from
your creditor (known as the pursuer) to confirm your payment.
If you write to Registry Trust Ltd questioning the accuracy of a judgment recorded on your file, asking for an entry to be changed, you should send a cheque for £4.50 to cover their search fee. They will then tell the credit reference agencies about any change to your file.
For judgments made in Northern Ireland, if you provide documents from a plaintiff to confirm a payment, the
agencies will change their records. If you have any questions about the accuracy of a judgment recorded on
your file, contact the court concerned.
Registry Trust Ltd.
173-175 Cleveland Street
London
W1P 5PE
Bankruptcies
If a bankruptcy order against you is annulled (cancelled) or discharged (that is, you have met all terms), you should send a copy of the Annulment Certificate or Order of Discharge to the credit reference agencies. They will then update their records. If your bankruptcy has been annulled they should completely remove any record of it from your file.
If your bankruptcy has been discharged a record of it will be kept on your file but it will show that it has been
discharged.
Voluntary arrangements
If you have any questions about a record of a voluntary arrangement you should contact the supervisor who dealt with your case.If you send documents from the supervisor to confirm that the information on your file needs to be
changed, the agencies will change their records.
Credit accounts
After carefully studying the credit account details (credit cards, loans, mortgages, etc.) on your file, if you believe any information needs to be changed you should write to the lender concerned and ask them to give the correct information to the credit reference agencies.Searches
Credit reference agencies will delete searches only when they are instructed to do so by the company who searched your file. If you are concerned about the accuracy of a record of a search, you should contact the company which carried out that search.
Linked addresses
Links between your previous addresses, or any addresses you may use for correspondence, may be listed on your credit file. The link will only be broken when the reference agencies are asked to do so by the organisation that created the link.CIFAS
If you have any questions about a CIFAS record, write to the organisation concerned. If you disagree with that organisation over the information on your file, ask the organisation for details of the scheme for settling disputes.Financial associations (shared financial responsibility) If a financial association is shown, and you do not share a financial responsibility with the other person, or if that financial association no longer exists, you should write to the credit reference agencies. They will investigate the matter and make any necessary change to your file.
Aliases
If any names are shown on your credit report that you have never used, you should contact the company listed as providing the other name, or write to the credit reference agency and they will investigate the matter and make any necessary changes to your file.
Information about other people
If you share no financial responsibility with any other person mentioned on your file you can ask the agencies to ‘create a disassociation’. This breaks any connection between your information and theirs and so makes sure their information is removed from your file, and that your information is removed from theirs.To do this you must give the agencies your, and the other person’s, full name and date of birth, details of your relationship and any shared addresses.
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