{"id":36,"date":"2004-07-26T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2004-07-26T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T22:24:11","slug":"what-every-consumer-should-know-about-credit-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/26\/what-every-consumer-should-know-about-credit-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"What Every Consumer Should Know About Credit Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenschronicle.com\/\">Queens Chronicle<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever applied for a loan, from a mortgage to a credit card, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably heard the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153credit score.\u00e2\u20ac? You may even know that credit scoring is a way for lenders to evaluate a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credit worthiness using a mathematical formula. But you may still have questions on what information goes into the evaluation, how the score is calculated and how it is different from your credit report.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Consumers should know the answers to these questions and how credit scores affect their overall financial situation,\u00e2\u20ac? says Maxine Sweet of Experian, a company that provides consumers with tools and services to help them understand, manage and protect their personal credit profiles.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?BRD=1863&amp;dept_id=534849&amp;newsid=12440905&amp;PAG=461&amp;rfi=9\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens Chronicle reports: If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever applied for a loan, from a mortgage to a credit card, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably heard the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153credit score.\u00e2\u20ac? You may even know that credit scoring is a way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}