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Credit Reports & Checking Your Credit
Credit Reports: Frequently Asked Questions This brochure is meant to give you general information about credit reports and not to give you specific advice about your case.
By: Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i - Honolulu
How to Check Your Credit Getting a copy of your credit report is important because: It gives you an idea of what your credit history looks like, you can make sure that the information on your credit report is accurate, AND you can find out what information credit bureaus have been gathering about you and making available to others. Adapted from the National Consumer Law Center Inc’s brochure entitled
“The Truth About Credit Reports and Credit Repair Companies.”
By: Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i - Honolulu
Credit and Divorce
(Separate Website)
Information about credit issues in a divorce. If you have recently been through a divorce—or are contemplating one—you may want to look closely at issues involving credit. Understanding the different kinds of credit accounts opened during a marriage may help illuminate the potential benefits—and pitfalls—of each.
By: Federal Trade Commission
Choosing and Using Credit Cards This brochure is meant to give you general information about credit cards and not to give you specific advice about your case.
By: Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i - Honolulu
Credit - An FTC Consumer Law Web Site
(Separate Website)
This website contains over 100 documents that deal with credit issues, including credit scams, privacy issues, identity theft, electronic banking and credit cards. The web site also contains information for businesses. The documents may be viewed and printed from the screen or printed in PDF format.
By: Federal Trade Commission
Adobe Acrobat Reader required. (If you are using a screen reader that does not support PDF format, copy the PDF link, and use the Access Adobe online form to convert this file to HMTL text.)
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