This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament
Rejected petition The cost of your rent payment should be part of a credit reference check .
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Include the cost of rent payments to a credit reference agency.
While rent payments are always unicluded in credit reference checks, this needs to change, as rent is always more than a mortgage monthly payment. So it should be be included in an credit agency check. This would help the housing market also.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
The preparation and scoring of credit reports is a matter for individual credit reference agencies in cooperation with lenders, not the Government or Parliament.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.