Consumer complaint received 2024-07-03 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem — Their investigation did not fix an error on your report
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MI

Complaint narrative:
XXXX, XXXX, & Equifax continue to report XXXX accounts incorrectly. The accounts listed as XXXX XXXX XXXX and XXXX XXXX are not accounts that actually lawfully belong to me and each time I have disputed these accounts each consumer agency keeps stating the information is verified but it can not be so whoever is reading this complaint tell me how you are verifying this information. Equifax stated this is a new account and it is not. These accounts are keeping me from obtaining housing which is a direct violation of my rights. Do not add any fraud alerts to my consumer report or freeze if any exist remove them immediately. 

( a ) Abusive practices There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptcies, to marital instability, to the loss of jobs, and to invasions of individual privacy. 

( b ) Inadequacy of laws Existing laws and procedures for redressing these injuries are inadequate to protect consumers. 

( c ) Available non-abusive collection methods Means other than misrepresentation or other abusive debt collection practices are available for the effective collection of debts. 

( d ) Interstate commerce Abusive debt collection practices are carried on to a substantial extent in interstate commerce and through means and instrumentalities of such commerce. Even where abusive debt collection practices are purely intrastate in character, they nevertheless directly affect interstate commerce.

( e ) Purposes It is the purpose of this subchapter to eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors, to insure that those debt collectors who refrain from using abusive debt collection practices are not competitively disadvantaged, and to promote consistent State action to protect consumers against debt collection abuses. 

( a ) Authority. This part, known as Regulation Z, is issued by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to implement the Federal Truth in Lending Act, which is contained in title I of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as amended ( 15 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ). This part also implements title XII, section 1204 of the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 ( Pub. L. 100-86, 101 Stat. 552 ). Furthermore, this part implements certain provisions of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974, as amended ( 12 U.S.C. 2601 et seq. ). In addition, this part implements certain provisions of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act, as amended ( 12 U.S.C. 3331 et seq. ). The Bureau 's information-collection requirements contained in this part have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) under the provisions of 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. and have been assigned XXXX XXXX. XXXX ( XXXX in XXXX ). 

( b ) Purpose. The purpose of this part is to promote the informed use of consumer credit by requiring disclosures about its terms and cost, to ensure that consumers are provided with greater and more timely information on the nature and costs of the residential real estate settlement process, and to effect certain changes in the settlement process for residential real estate that will result in more effective advance disclosure to home buyers and sellers of settlement costs. The regulation also includes substantive protections. It gives consumers the right to cancel certain credit transactions that involve a lien on a consumer 's principal dwelling, regulates certain credit card practices, and provides a means for fair and timely resolution of credit billing disputes. The regulation does not generally govern charges for consumer credit, except that several provisions in subpart G set forth special rules addressing certain charges applicable to credit card accounts under an open-end ( not home-secured ) consumer credit plan. The regulation requires a maximum interest rate to be stated in variable-rate contracts secured by the consumer 's dwelling. It also imposes limitations on home-equity plans that are subject to the requirements of 1026.40 and mortgages that are subject to the requirements of 1026.32. The regulation prohibits certain acts or practices in connection with credit secured by a dwelling in 1026.36, and credit secured by a consumer 's principal dwelling in 1026.35. The regulation also regulates certain practices of creditors who extend private education loans as defined in 1026.46 ( b ) ( 5 ). In addition, it imposes certain limitations on increases in costs for mortgage transactions subject to 1026.19 ( e ) and ( f ).

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation