Cifas dsar

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I wanted to know when filling in a cifas how important is the “years at address” tab? I filled this is in incorrectly now that I think back to it, so I wanted to know if this would affect the application. And how does cifas even know my years at address when I never have it.
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The cifas application asks of complete years at address, if I moved houses on 9th August 2012 and moved from there on 2nd August 2014 does that count as 2 years or 1 year ??

Hi
I wanted to know when filling in a cifas how important is the “years at address” tab? I filled this is in incorrectly now that I think back to it, so I wanted to know if this would affect the application. And how does cifas even know my years at address when I never have it.
Thanks

I assume that it's (a) part of the identitity check, and (b) so that they can marry up their records -- i.e. to know that John Frederick Smith with date of birth 1/2/99 of address A is the same person as John Frederick Smith with date of birth 1/2/99 of address B.

The address changes will have been recorded at the Credit Reference Agencies by banks and other lenders when you submit change-of-address requests.