Archive for the ‘Consumer advocates’ Category
credit score, employers, Center for Responsible Lending
From: Greg Fisher
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:51 AM
To: julia.gordon@responsiblending.org
cc: drshow@wamu.org
Subject: credit score, employers, Center for Responsible Lending
In response to Diane Rehm’s question about credit score use in pre-employment screening, you did not disagree with the premise: Employers use credit scores.
What evidence suggests that employers use credit scores?
What is the name of an employer who uses [...]
Insurance credit scores in Michigan
From the Michigan Supreme Court: “The Court will also hear oral arguments in Insurance Institute of Michigan v Insurance Commissioner, in which the plaintiffs, a group that includes insurance companies and individual customers, challenge administrative rules aimed at prohibiting insurance scoring, the practice of using consumer credit report scores to set personal insurance rates.”
The Insurance [...]
Average, credit score, Better Business Bureau (BBB)
See Fake-O FICO Funk.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:25:33 -0400
To: Sharane Gott <sharane@acadiana.bbb.org>
From: “creditscoring.com” <greg@creditscoring.com>
Subject: credit score, average
You wrote, “Average FICO scores for U.S. consumers are around 690.”
Who is your source for that figure?