 TITLE: How Can I Get Free Credit Monitoring? CONTENT: Credit Monitoring Does Not Impact Your Credit Score\n---------------------------------------------------\nWhen lenders request your credit report and credit score, the resulting hard inquiries are logged on your credit report and typically cause a decrease in credit score. But checking your own credit report or credit score, either manually or automatically through Experian's credit monitoring service, has no effect on your credit score at all since it's recorded as a soft inquiry.\nFree credit monitoring from Experian is a helpful tool for tracking your own credit activity and progress toward credit score improvement—and it can also provide valuable early warnings of credit fraud and identity theft. END