First, there are three basic categories of information included in a credit report.
These are:
Basic Personal Information: This is pretty self-explanatory. Included in your credit report are your full name, date of birth, current address, social security number, and employment information.
Collection and Accounts: This is the information most people think of when discussing a credit report. This is usually separated into two buckets of information: All open lines of credit and all accounts that may be delinquent or in collections.
Public Financial Records: This can include bankruptcy filings, tax liens, or any judgments that affect your credit status.
All three categories of information are collected and applied to credit reports by different methods.
- Basic personal information is originally reported by the individual borrower when opening his/her first line of credit. This is updated throughout the borrower’s lifetime as new lines of credit are opened.
- Collections and account information is updated most frequently and proactively – usually monthly – by collections agencies and lenders directly to the credit bureaus.
- Finally, public records are the only pieces of information that are proactively collected by the credit reporting agencies solely for the purpose of reporting.
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