"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 6/14/2016 8:48 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> She isn't going to be job hunting at her age, but that's one
>> thing in life people will be smart to have a credit history,
>> from what I've read. Heck, my niece's boyfriend is entering the
>> police academy and he had to print out his credit report and
>> furnish his FICO score as a condition of his employment.
>
> That's something I just wondered about so thanks for posting this.
> Clearances and job eligibility seem to depend on your credit history for
> sure, FICO I guess as well.

I was notified some months back that Angela and I might have compromised
information due to some government computer being hacked. They accessed the
military dependent's information and we were ripe for identity theft. They
gave us three years of something or other...maybe Lifelock...something like
that.

Now this was very fortuitous for me because some of Angela's I.D. was stolen
not long after we moved in here when our house was robbed. I had tried to
check her credit to see if anything nasty had been done to her but for a
minor, you have to jump through all sorts of hoops and they including
sending a copy of her social security card though the mail. I didn't want to
do this because that was a chance for identity theft.

But... Since we had potentially been violated and the government was paying
for this service for us, no such hoops were needed. And thankfully neither
of us have been compromised.