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Freeze Your Credit Report Now

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

Why This Needs to Be the Year You Freeze Your Credit Report Have you ever worried about identity theft? It seems like every month or two, some mega-retailer or company announces the latest data breach affecting tens of millions of Americans, putting them at greater risk of identity theft and fraud. Whether you feel resigned…

Credit Myths Busted: Improve Your Score

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

The Top Five Myths You Thought Hurt Your Credit Most consumers understand that building and maintaining good credit matters. Most also know credit scores play a central role in loan approvals, from mortgages and car loans to credit cards and store credit. Unfortunately, clarify seems to end there. Contrary to popular belief (and even a…

How Often Should You Look At Your Credit Report?

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

How Often Should You Look at Your Credit Report? You should review your credit at least on an annual basis. Since 2004, all American adults have had the right to view their credit reports from the three major consumer reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) every twelve months. Consider the term, “annually,” your minimum. You…

Credit and Job Applications

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

Everything You Need to Know About Credit and Applying for New Job If you have filled out a job application in the 21st century, the potential employer has likely requested your permission to look at your credit as part of their background check. Many job applicants wonder what their credit background has to do with…

FICO® Resilience Score Just Misses the Mark

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

How does the FICO® Resilience Score Affect consumers? With two great financial crises hitting the American consumer in a dozen years, FICO’s new consumer resilience index offers prospective lenders a powerful new tool for their evaluation toolbox. Such a score can provide particularly critical information when analyzing consumers with fair credit scores to determine how…

How to Improve Your Credit Score

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

Build a Better Credit Rating in just 6 to 12 Months Credit can seem like such a huge deal that you might not even know where to start when it comes to building or, in many cases, rebuilding your credit score. Strip mall lenders make one claim, and followers of radio personalities counter with other tips. Credit repair companies…

Bad Credit No Credit

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

The Most Common and Confusing Credit Question As a financial educator with over 1,000 workshops facilitated in person, I’ve heard learners ask certain questions over and over, indicating that these concerns are common to most American consumers. Above all other personal finance topics, credit scores and credit reports generate more uncertainty and confusion than all…

Identifying and Disputing Credit Report Errors

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

Credit Gives, Errors Take Away Did you know that a recent Consumer Reports study determined that about one-third of the US population have errors, both significant and insignificant, on their credit report? Shocking, right? After all, you readily accept your credit score as accurate and never even question it because you consider its source trustworthy.…

Building Credit: A Complete How-to Guide

Eylül 21, 2025 • moneyfit.org

How to Build Your Credit Rating When building credit from scratch (as most young adults must) or rebuilding credit after a run of difficult financial challenges (medical, collections, bankruptcy, job loss, etc.), there are several steps to take to improve credit scores and show potential creditors that you are not a high risk to them…

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