What's Not in Your Score
scores consider a wide range of information on your credit report.
However, they do not consider:
- Your race, color, religion, national origin, sex and marital
status.
US law prohibits credit scoring from considering these
facts, as well as any receipt of public assistance, or the exercise of any
consumer right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
- Your age.
Other types of scores may consider your age, but FICO
scores don't.
- Your salary, occupation, title, employer, date employed or
employment history.
Lenders may consider this information, however, as may
other types of scores.
- Where you live.
- Any interest rate being charged on a particular credit card or other
account.
- Any items reported as child/family support obligations or rental
agreements.
- Certain types of inquiries (requests for your credit
report).
The score
does not count ?consumer-initiated? inquiries ? requests you have made for
your credit report, in order to check it. It also does not count ?promotional
inquiries? ? requests made by lenders in order to make you a ?pre-approved?
credit offer ? or ?administrative inquiries? ? requests made by lenders to
review your account with them. Requests that are marked as coming from
employers are not counted either.
- Any information not found in your credit report.
- Any information that is not proven to be predictive of future credit
performance.
- Whether or not you are participating in a credit counseling of any
kind.
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