I understand that you can't comment directly on that, but we often hear back from the credit reporting agencies that although some credit scores and reports may get reported inaccurately, they virtually never adversely affect a consumer before they are corrected.
Foster questions the credit agencies' claims about the benign nature of credit errors.
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