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A graduate of the University of Florida, Julia has more than five years of experience in personal finance journalism. In addition to overseeing Money’s news coverage, she frequently reports on the ins and outs of credit scores, the credit bureaus and free credit reports.
Americans will permanently have access to free weekly online credit reports from the three major credit reporting agencies, the companies announced Monday.
Before the pandemic, you were only entitled to get a free copy of your credit report once per year from each of the credit bureaus — Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. Spacing out those three requests, you could view an official credit report at most once every four months.