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Information Needed for a Credit Check

Published Jun,13 2017 | By Julie Boehlke

A credit check is used to determine someone’s creditworthiness. A credit check can be as simple as getting an applicant’s FICO score or credit rating number or as complex as pulling a merged report of all three credit reporting agencies—Experian, TransUnion and Equifax.