print email comment close 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. 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