Content Overview 
- Summary
- Who Creates A Credit Report?
- What Is In My Credit Report?
- How To Get A Free Copy Of My Credit Report
- What Should I Look For In My Credit Report?
- How Do I Fix Errors In My Credit Report?
- How Do I Get New Favorable Information Included In My Credit Report?
- What Do I Do If My Account Is Already Very Delinquent or "Charged Off" As Bad Debt?
- What If The Creditor Or Credit Bureau Won't Fix An Error In My Credit Report?
- How Can I Prevent Errors In My Credit Report For The Future?
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A credit report is a summation of your credit history. It includes information about your past use of credit, including borrowing, repaying and bankruptcy. The summation of your credit report is your credit rating.
Credit reports are created by three national credit bureaus. Because of identity theft, it's advisable to get a report every four months. You are entitled to one free report from each bureau every year. You can get three at once. Alternatively, you can protect against identity theft and incorrect information showing up on your report by ordering a report from a different company every four months.
There are also other ways to get free reports. If you have to pay, credit reports don't cost much money.
If your report is incorrect, you can correct it or have a statement explaining your view of the error attached to your report.
You can improve your credit score. A place to start is by understanding how a credit score is calculated.
As you can read in our article, Credit is important for many reasons -- including access to funds when you need them most. If you don't have credit, you can still get it.
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