QUIRKY WORLD ... St Louis woman can’t get credit for being alive

US: A 40-year-old St Louis woman has spent months trying to convince credit reporting agencies that she’s alive.

QUIRKY WORLD ... St Louis woman can’t get credit for being alive

Alexandria Goree is suing Experian, TransUnion and Equifax over the glitch, contending that it was difficult to get loans or a new home because the credit reporting firms said she was dead.

Her suit, filed last week in federal court, said Goree found a “deceased” notation on her credit files in the summer of 2013. Such a notice can appear when a creditor informs a reporting agency that one of its customers has died.

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