A good credit score can help you qualify for loans, lower your interest rates and even expand housing and job opportunities. Responsible financial habits — like paying on time and keeping debt low — ...

A low credit score shuts many doors. Personal loans become expensive or unavailable. Regular credit cards are declined ...

If you’ve missed your credit card payment deadline by a day or two, don’t panic. A lapse of just a couple of days won’t affect your credit score. You might even be able to get your credit card issuer ...

A financial expert explains how a woman with a maxed-out credit card and no credit history can verify debt and rebuild her ...

Your score is constantly changing because lenders regularly provide new information about you to the credit bureaus. For ...

Credit scores are more important than ever. But, one little slip up can have severe consequences. 2 News Oklahoma's Cathy ...

A new report finds that scores dropped the most for those age 18 to 29. Here’s how to deal with a drop in your score. By Ann Carrns Young adults, those 18 to 29, are starting to see the negative ...

Jeanine Skowronski is an editor, writer, and journalist with more than 15 years of experience in personal finance and business, including roles at Bankrate, CreditCards.com, and Policygenius. Her work ...

The average U.S. credit score is 715, according to FICO's Score Credit Insights, which examined data from April 2025. That's still in the "good" range, but it represents a two-point drop ...

What is considered a good credit score depends on the type of credit score used. You have multiple credit scores, but the most popular type of score is FICO, followed by VantageScore.