Credit Bureaus Allow Unauthorized Hard Inquiries With No Clear Removal Path
Consumers discover hard credit inquiries on their reports that lack a valid permissible purpose under FCRA, yet the dispute process to remove them is deliberately opaque and often unsuccessful. Credit bureaus have little incentive to clean up inquiry data since lenders are their actual customers. This structural misalignment leaves consumers bearing the score impact of others' errors.
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