Media depiction, credit score use, employers, CBS, Dallas
Consumer reporting agencies Equifax, TransUnion and Experian all state that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening.
Despite that, the anchor at the CBS-owned television station in Dallas asks the financial expert and analyst to explain it all to us:
It is today’s #1 hit in Yahoo News for the term “credit score” (complete with [...]
August 17, 2009
• Tags: CBS, employer, expert, Media • Posted in: Employers, Media, Uncategorized, experts • No Comments
Debt utilization, how much owed compared to capacity to borrow, ABC News
From: creditscoring.com
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:09 PM
To: Alice Gomstyn
Cc: Emily Peters
You wrote, “Peters says that nearly a third of your credit score is dependent on how much you owe, compared to how much you have the capacity to borrow — your debt utilization.”
If that ratio represents almost a third of the FICO score, then [...]
June 5, 2009
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