How to Freeze Your Credit, and Whether You Should

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Love Is Blind discourse, and “what are we wearing?” queries. I’ve always considered myself to be enough, but the thought of undergoing another bureaucratic task on top of filing my taxes seemed unnecessarily tedious.However, when my more proactive friends pressed her for the TL;DR, Mariya explained why now is the time to act: If there’s “more-lax oversight” as a result of President Trump’s dismantling of multiple government agencies, “we’re at a higher risk for fraud/leaks of personal data and information,” she wrote.Freezing your credit, she added, “just means that no one can open an account or use your identity to do so under your name since they’d have unfreeze your credit.”Everything you need to know about the confusing new trade policies—for the girls.She’s right, of course.

When I looked into it on my own, I came across scores of articles in which experts warned that our most sensitive information that is stored by the government, including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers—all things one would need to steal your identity—could be vulnerable as thousands of federal employees are fired.Since Trump took office, , including the IRS.

Olivia S. Mitchell, PhD, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans professor at the Wharton School of Business, tells Glamour that these massive cuts, in addition to the installation of Musk-appointed teams and the firing of —a.k.a.

the people who were in charge of conducting audits, investigating fraud, and promoting efficiency at major government departments—could leave millions of Americans of their most sensitive personal information.