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Experian phone number: can you speak to a live person? What happens when you call
We called Experian’s freeze line 15 times in one afternoon, then its membership line. Here are the routes we tried and recordings of both lines.
SEP 30 / Nick Khami
IRS phone number to talk to a live person: 800-829-1040
We called the IRS individual taxpayer line twice with general questions for this guide. The first call was hung up on by the voice menu. On the second, we named a reason and reached a live representative. Here are both recordings, the menu, and what the representative said.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
Social Security phone number: how to talk to a real person at SSA
We called the Social Security Administration's national 800 number with general questions for this guide. The menu asked for a Social Security number; we didn't give one and still got an agent. Here is the menu, the 20 minute hold estimate, what the representative said, and the full 22 minute recording.
OCT 13 / Nick Khami
How long it takes to reach a human at 86 companies
We reviewed 147 customer service calls described in our guides to 86 companies. Here is how long it took to reach a person, what got through, where calls stopped and the full dataset as a CSV.
OCT 8 / Nick Khami
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