credit freeze
credit squeeze

In most states, you'd have to pay a fee to lift the credit freeze.

The cost of placing a credit freeze and the lead times vary.

In some states, anyone can place a credit freeze.

A credit freeze is different from a fraud alert in a number of ways.

What's the difference between a credit freeze and a fraud alert?

You can put the credit freeze on your account.

While they are different in each state, credit freezes are also available.

Who can access my credit report if I place a credit freeze?

This credit freeze brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.

The risk of a Hungarian banking crisis and credit freeze is high.

Credit froze, taking us to the precipice of a global depression.

Most states have laws that allow consumers to place a credit freeze with consumer reporting companies.

Some consumers use credit freezes because they feel they give more protection.

For more information about credit freezes, check with your state attorney general's office or visit www.naag.org.

Often, the companies advertising these services simply are offering to place a fraud alert or credit freeze on your report.

You can find more information about credit freeze laws specific to your state by clicking here, including information on how to place one.

A credit freeze allows you to restrict access to your credit report.

The cost of placing, temporarily lifting, and removing a credit freeze also varies.

Credit freezes are frequently viewed as the most effective way to prevent financial identity theft.

In some states, credit freezing fees are waived for victims of identity theft.

What does a credit freeze not do?

You can ask the consumer reporting company to lift your credit freeze temporarily, or remove it altogether.

Most states currently give the credit reporting agencies three days to lift the credit freeze.

Today, credit freezes are made possible by state laws as well as industry-initiated rules.

If you place a credit freeze, you will continue to have access to your free annual credit report.

The money involved is not even a tenth of the tax credit squeeze in the first year.

The fear of French invasion caused an international credit squeeze.

Due to a credit squeeze, the economy had gone into a brief recession in 1961.

The government responded to the payments crisis with a credit squeeze.

Bankruptcies soared, many as a result of the credit squeeze.

There has been a credit squeeze pretty much everywhere.

The higher interest rates and credit squeeze control used by the Conservatives did, however, slow down growth in the economy overall.

The move raised hopes that the money could alleviate the region's credit squeeze.

The most alarming problem for many ordinary Japanese businesses has been a credit squeeze.

Fears of a credit squeeze in the bond market have abated.

Indeed, some see the whole credit squeeze as a step forward, in the sense that banks are finally caring about risks.

China, like Japan, is caught in a credit squeeze.

But the Government justified the measures as necessary to relieve a credit squeeze and bring down interest rates, which are now running above 40 percent.

Another reason for the credit squeeze is tighter regulations.

But the biggest factor in the continuing decline of the real estate market is the credit squeeze.

Foreign business also has a more practical complaint: because of China's credit squeeze, bills are no longer paid on time.

But if not, he said, the cause could be a new credit squeeze, which would be much more damaging to the economy.

It was the classic recipe for a self-perpetuating credit squeeze.

The banks' credit squeeze was having the same effect on the economy as if the Fed were tightening the money supply.

I think there was a pretty strong rationale, given the credit squeeze, of trying to put cash in businesses' pockets.

Three top Federal regulators said there had been a slowdown in bank lending but no credit squeeze.

Bankers are racing to lend to business and consumers, a far cry from the recent credit squeeze.

That is well above the peak level before the recession and the credit squeeze of the early 1990's.

A quiet credit squeeze is under way for the most heavily indebted corporate borrowers.

The structure of interest rates indicates that there is no credit squeeze, and none is likely.