#credit-scores

#credit-scores

While past studies have explored how cancer patients' financial health influenced their risk of mortality, new research digs in deeper by zeroing in on objective data: credit scores. It found that when a cancer patient's credit score drops - regardless of where it started pre-diagnosis - odds of survival decrease drastically. The findings were presented earlier this month at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress and have not been peer-reviewed.

Millions of people are accidentally making themselves look bad to lenders. Something as simple as taking cash out on a credit card can damage your score, cost you money, and make borrowing harder. With more households carrying debt from month to month, it's more important than ever to understand how your day-to-day financial decisions affect your future.

A strong predictor of an adult's bill-paying habits is the environment in which they grew up, revealing lifelong differences in repayment behavior by early adulthood.

According to the New York Fed, superprime U.S. borrowers-those with credit scores above 760-who carry unpaid student loan balances are expected to see their credit scores drop by an average of 171 points this spring.