Can I Improve My Credit Score?

Unless you're one of the lucky few with perfect or near-perfect credi scores, there is probably something you can do to improve that score. A higher credit score can save you a lot of money in loan interest, so it's worth putting a little bit of effort into keeping your credit score as high as possible. Michael Killian over at About.com offers some good tips for improving your credit score:

It's likely to take some time to improve your score significantly. However, the most important issues to improved credit score are:

1. accuracy of report
2. on time payments
3. paying down outstanding balances
4. not taking on new debt

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