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Category Archives: Consumer Credit
How to Avoid Excessive Debt While Holiday Shopping
We all feel the pressure to get the perfect gift for family members and friends. However, spending a lot of money on gifts can put you into serious debt. Every January and February, credit counselors see a 25 percent spike in the number of people seeking financial help. Many of these consumers blame their financial woes on holiday shopping. If you want to avoid this holiday pitfall, here are some tips to make the festive season more frugal. Make a Budget How much can you afford to spend on presents this year? Look at your finances, set a spending limit and stick to it. Knowing how much you can afford to spend will help prevent excessive spending when you are in the store. Make a List of Who Is Getting Gifts Make a list of the people who are at the top of your gift buying list. You can take…
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Five Personal Finance Habits That May Improve Your Credit Scores
Your credit scores can have a major impact on several areas of your life. These scores, which are calculated from the information in your three credit reports, determine where you can live and which loan terms you receive from lenders. Credit scores can even affect the type of job offers you receive. If you have poor credit scores, the good news is that they are not permanent. You can always adopt new personal finance habits to improve your credit scores. The following personal finance habits may help you achieve this goal. Pull your credit reports often. Pull your credit reports as often as possible. You can pull your reports from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion once per year for free. However, you should try to pull these reports twice per year at a minimum. If you are able, try to pull your credit reports once every four months. Look for mistakes,…
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Do Student Loans Affect My Credit Scores?
Credit scores are calculated from the information contained in your credit reports. Payment history and credit utilization are examples of factors that affect your scores. Like other types of debts, your student loans also have an impact on your creditworthiness. The following facts about student loans may help you understand how higher education debt can affect your credit scores. Student loans can improve your credit scores if you pay on time. Out of all the factors that affect your credit scores, payment history is the most important. Your student loan payment history accounts for 35 percent of your FICO scores. Paying your student loans in full on time each month can improve your scores. Late payments could hurt your scores, but not always. It would depend on whether your servicer reports your late payments to the credit bureaus. Student loans can tank your credit scores if you default. Your credit…
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