http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2008/07/married-women-need-credit-in-their-own-name-to-protect-their-credit-score.html News for Consumers in Changing Times Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2008/07/married-women-need-credit-in-their-own-name-to-protect-their-credit-score.html/comment-page-1#comment-5694 Debt and the Holidays — P2P No Bank Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:31:18 +0000 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/09/married-women-need-credit-in-their-own-name-to-protect-their-credit-score.html#comment-5694 [...] Married Women Need Credit in Their Own Name to Protect Their Credit Score Fair Isaac is changing the way credit scores are calculated and chances are it will negatively affect the credit scores for millions of women. For many years now, people have been allowed to share their best credit cards with other authorized users. If the card was used on a regular basis...... [...] [...] Married Women Need Credit in Their Own Name to Protect Their Credit Score Fair Isaac is changing the way credit scores are calculated and chances are it will negatively affect the credit scores for millions of women. For many years now, people have been allowed to share their best credit cards with other authorized users. If the card was used on a regular basis…… [...]

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]]> http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2008/07/married-women-need-credit-in-their-own-name-to-protect-their-credit-score.html/comment-page-1#comment-946 Archimedes Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:42:00 +0000 http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2007/09/married-women-need-credit-in-their-own-name-to-protect-their-credit-score.html#comment-946 It figures that the credit companies, that we have absolutely no control or say over, would find a way to lower many people's credit scores and make them get more credit cards that would carry a higher interest rate because of their lower scores. I doubt the inflating of other scores is a bigger issue than all the people who share cards with family members and would be hurt by this. Wouldn't it have made more sense that to have joint credit sharing between 2 people that a real relationship between the parties could be proven if they wanted that benefit? It figures that the credit companies, that we have absolutely no control or say over, would find a way to lower many people’s credit scores and make them get more credit cards that would carry a higher interest rate because of their lower scores. I doubt the inflating of other scores is a bigger issue than all the people who share cards with family members and would be hurt by this. Wouldn’t it have made more sense that to have joint credit sharing between 2 people that a real relationship between the parties could be proven if they wanted that benefit?

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