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4 Ways To Use Your Stimulus Check To Improve Your Credit Score

That $600 payment may not go very far, but it's enough to boost your credit score if you follow these steps.
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Don't Be Fooled By This Viral Misconception About Credit Scores

Lots of other countries use credit scores, although each one does it a bit differently.
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9 Ways To Fix Your Credit Score If It Got Dinged During The Pandemic

Step 1: Talk to your lender ASAP.
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How To Avoid Bad Credit As Protections In The CARES Act Expire

Your lender might be willing to keep payment problems off the record even after coronavirus relief measures expire.
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You Can Build Credit Without Going Into Debt. Here's How.

You could piggyback on someone else's good credit instead.
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The Trump Administration Just Did Equifax A Huge Favor

Notorious credit-monitoring companies might be able to weasel their way into the mortgage industry.
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Equifax To Pay Up To $650 Million In Data Breach Settlement

The largest-ever settlement for a data breach draws to a close multiple probes into the credit-reporting company.
By Pete Schroeder, Reuters

This Map Shows The Average Credit Score In Every State

New credit data from Experian shows how Americans fare 10 years after the financial crisis.
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Paying For Any Of These Financial Services Is A Total Rip-Off

Don't spend your hard-earned money on things you can get free.
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If You Haven't Frozen Your Child's Credit, Do It ASAP

More than 1 million kids were victims of identity theft last year.
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