All XXXX credit reporting companies, XXXX, transunion, XXXX ALL created a new credit history file for me when I changed my name. My SSN remained the same. I am a XXXX woman and I was having trouble getting credit after my XXXX. When I looked into it I found that all of the credit reporting companies had XXXX files for me. XXXX under my old name and XXXX under my current legal name. I am still in the process of getting this corrected, which means having them merge the XXXX files. They had instructed me to ask all of my old CC and bank loan companies to re-report the information with my corrected name. The ones that would, did but, it STILL did n't show up on my credit report. The merging of the XXXX files for each credit reporting company is where I am now. It has been a HUGE time consuming process. Many days worth of time spent on the phone to correct this issue which NEVER should have happened XXXX. XXXX they should have just started reporting my new name and new credit cards as part of my existing record based on my social security number. If I had an issue with it, i.e. if someone else had this happen they would see it on their credit report and dispute it. So, why is n't this the default? Being a XXXX person in this society is hard enough. Why do we have to start our credit history all over when we are just trying to live as ourselves. I do n't think most XXXX people would go through the long wait times on the phone and the getting run around ... when they have XXXX records that should just get merged. If I had n't had credit monitoring from before my name change and after I do n't think I would have noticed what was going on ... well not as fast. ALSO, regardless if someone is a XXXX. If someone starts using another person 's SSN with whatever name they want, they can build a credit history. So, this is making it easy for someone to create a fake identity / life. 
Please see about getting the credit reporting companies policy changed with regards to SSN and names. 
Thank you. 
A XXXX year old XXXX woman with XXXX credit history from when I was a XXXX and 2 years as a XXXX. Once my files are merged I will finally all XXXX of credit history that I deserve.