Credit Card Companies Monkeying with Credit Ratings
Kenneth Harney reports in today's San Francisco Chronicle on a recent Federal Reserve staff research report that discussed how some credit card issuers may be withholding certain information from the national credit bureaus and, as a result, affecting consumers credit scores.
The Fed researchers did not identify the credit card issuers that intentionally withhold customers' limits. But for 46 percent of the consumers in a random sample of 301,000 credit files to be affected by this score-depressing policy, the creditors involved must be numerous, big or both.
The full study is available for downloading online (PDF).
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