You can now get a free credit freeze for your kids

As of today, you can get free credit freezes for your kids. Technically all credit freezes are now free, but it's less well known that you can do this for your kids.Credit freezes are especially helpful for minors since they likely will not be opening new credit accounts, and it prevents other people from committing credit fraud under your kid's name. You just need to go to the individual sites for the 3 major bureaus (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) and make the requests.TLDR You can now initiate a free credit freeze for your kids so that fraudsters can't open credit accounts under their name. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2prY9qL