Discover eight simple strategies to boost your credit score and unlock better opportunities for financial success.

If your credit score is low, and you aren’t sure how to improve it, working with a good credit repair company might help. Credit repair companies help you repair your credit by disputing misreported ...

Building your credit is already a long-term process. Repairing bad credit after your score has taken a hit, whether you’ve missed a single payment or declared bankruptcy, can seem even more daunting.

Exploring credit repair is one way to begin the process of fixing a poor credit score and could make it easier to access credit with better terms and conditions in the future. While there are ...

The CFPB is quietly adding protection for credit bureaus instead of protecting you. Here's what you need to know.

Your credit score indicates how likely it is you’re going to pay off debt, a key metric of your financial worthiness. Generally, the higher your credit score, the more access you’ll have to better ...

Improving your credit score after financial trauma is not a quick fix and often involves many steps, like financial therapy or setting boundaries. Financial trauma can originate from an overwhelming ...

Some card details on this page may be out of date. You might have heard about the importance of having a good credit score. But if you aren’t applying for a mortgage, does it really matter if your ...

After the shock of losing her job, Lisa Hill-Green of Richmond, Va., struggled to pay her bills. In an effort to bring down her costs, she went to her mortgage lender for a loan modification. But then ...

It might lower your score in the short term but make it easier to improve your score over time ...

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