Category: My Credit Score

COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE[1])–If you’re among the millions streaming more often during COVID-19, Experian is offering a way to use the leading video streaming service to boost your credit. Building on its groundbreaking consumer credit product, Experian Boost[2]™, the company announced today that consumers can add video streaming payment history to their Experian credit reports using Experian Boost. With an...

Washington, D.C. – The tenth annual credit score survey, released today by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and VantageScore Solutions, LLC, shows that low-income households are most likely to apply for credit in the next 12 months.  Yet, the survey also reveals that these households generally know much less about credit scores than households with higher incomes. The phone...

FICO, provider of the most widely used credit score[1] in the U.S., is making big changes to its credit scoring system that will take effect this summer. The company says[2] these changes will likely affect 110 million Americans, whose credit scores will either go up or down. Some 80 million are likely to see significant changes of 20 points or more....

The operators of a bogus credit repair scheme are banned from the credit repair business and subject to a wide array of other requirements under settlement terms with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlements relate to an FTC complaint filed in June 2019[1] alleging that the defendants targeted consumers with false promises of substantially improving consumers’ credit scores by claiming...