Summaries of Rights and Notices of Duties Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

Resumen

The Federal Trade Commission (Commission) is publishing for public comment two summaries of rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and two notices of duties under the FCRA as required by FCRA Sections 609 and 607 respectively. Consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) will distribute these documents. The first summary is a summary of rights of identity theft victims required by Section 609(d) of the FCRA, which was added to the FCRA by the recently enacted Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act). The Commission issued the other summary and the two notices in 1997 and is proposing revisions because of the extensive changes made to the FCRA in the FACT Act. These are a general summary of consumer rights under the FCRA, a notice of responsibilities under the FCRA of persons that furnish information to consumer reporting agencies, and a notice of responsibilities under the FCRA of persons that obtain consumer reports from consumer reporting agencies.