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Review will help you understand your credit report and teach you how to improve your credit score and dispute any errors that you find on the report.
An FFEF-approved, certified Credit Report Reviewer will counsel and review your credit report with you line by line to address every concern. This is NOT credit repair. This is important information that can help you make the necessary changes in your financial habits to improve your credit score over time. Call your FFEF counselor for more information about the CreditScore Review.
What Is a Credit Score?
Credit scores were designed to help lending institutions go through the loan review process faster and make decisions more accurately. Retail merchants, credit card companies, insurance companies, and banks have used scoring methods since the 1950s to help them decide whether or not to grant loans, and mortgage lenders now also use these methods. Sometimes a credit score is called a FICO score. FICO is an abbreviation for Fair Isaac and Company, the company that developed
Understanding Your Credit