Your credit score can have one of the biggest impacts on your financial life. Your credit history may be viewed by banks, cell phone companies, credit card companies and even potential employers, so understanding how it works will help you maintain healthy finances.
Ready to Learn More?
Watch our Credit Scores and Reports module. It's quick and easy. Simply click the yellow button at the bottom of this page. The module will start playing as soon as you arrive on the site. Once you've listened to the introduction, click the arrow to the right of the screen to move through the three different topics:
- What is a credit score?
- How is your credit score calculated?
- How can you help protect your credit score?
Tips
Once you've started the module, you can see captions, adjust volume and pause the module by using the controls at the top right of the screen. You can also select the transcript button to see all of the content from the module.
Credit scores and reports can be confusing and difficult to understand. We've partnered with Everfi, Inc. to help simplify this information for you!