WASHINGTON--A consortium of consumer groups called on Congress today to reject the Federal Trade Commission's recently completed study on credit scoring and order the agency to conduct "an objective, independent study."

The FTC in a report last week said credit scores are an "effective predictor" in rating customer risk factors for automobile insurance policies.

In objecting to the FTC findings, the consumer organizations said that "based on the available evidence of racial discrimination, Congress should ban the use of insurance credit scoring."

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