What Really Determines Your Credit Score?
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Written by Robert H. Ruth
This is a topic I discuss with borrowers most every day, so I thought you’d like to know the components of your credit score. According to Fair Issac Corporation (FICO), “the score is calculated from many different pieces of data in your credit report, and the data is grouped into the 5 categories below.” Here they are with the approximate weighting assigned to each category:
- Payment History : 35%
- Amounts Owed : 30%
- Length of Credit History:15%
- New accounts Opened :10%
- Mix of Credit :10%
- Total: 100%
Let’s see what each category represents:
Payment history: 35%
This tells whether you have paid your credit card accounts on time in the past. If you make all your payments on time each…
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