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FILE - In this March 5, 2012 file photo, consumer credit cards are posed in North Andover, Mass. Consumers gave the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau an earful in 2020 â there were a record number of complaints, and credit reporting bureaus were cited in more than half. You have a right to get free copies of your credit reports and to have any errors investigated and addressed. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
By Bev O’shea
NerdWallet
Consumers filed complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in record numbers in 2020, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group. Credit reporting issues were cited in 282,000, or 63%, of the complaints. The majority noted “incorrect information” on credit reports or “information belongs to someone else,” the report said.