The Impact of Medical Debt on FICO Scores
July 20, 2015
Is your credit score costing you a bundle on auto insurance? A new study suggests it might be costing drivers hundreds of dollars each year.
Is your credit score costing you a bundle on auto insurance? A new study suggests it might be costing drivers hundreds of dollars each year.
Getting sick has led to millions of Americans paying more for loans – thanks to a medical debt domino effect on credit scores. But slowly, that's changing.
A reader asked us what she could do about credit damage from a bill that should have been paid by workers' compensation.
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Trying to keep track of every credit score you have is an impossible task. Even FICO, the most commonly used score, has dozens of models.
FICO will reportedly announce a new credit scoring model that uses bill payments to determine how creditworthy a consumer is.
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