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Your Credit Score: How It All Adds Up
URL: http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs6c-CreditScores.htm

Description:
Consumer fact sheet on credit scoring, "a grading system that adds or subtracts points based on select data in your credit report. ... Your final grade -- your credit score -- is said to measure how likely it is that you will repay a loan." Discusses factors used to determine credit scores (such as payment history and amount owed), ordering credit reports, and tips for improving your score. From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

LII Topics: Auctions, Consumer Research & Advocacy, Credit, Credit, Finance, Money

Publisher:
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse/UCAN

Extra Keywords
Equifax Experian TransUnion

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Consumer credit
Credit ratings
Finance, Personal

LII Database Information:
Record 20956 created by Jennifer English on 03/20/2006
Last modification on 03/22/2006
Published: 03/23/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20956

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