Until now, if you want to freeze your credit at the three major credit bureaus to protect yourself from identity theft issues (for example, because of last year's Equifax hack), you had to pay for the privilege since this was governed by State law.
Now we get a "National Credit Freeze" for free in a bill just signed into law in Washington. For a simpler English reading, see this. Basically, starting in October or so, the credit bureaus are required to offer you FOR free the ability to add/remove credit freezes on your account.
So if you have been waiting for this, make a note on your calendar....
Submitted June 07, 2018 at 04:10AM by arnexa https://ift.tt/2xMGCko
