Now that you're no longer employed, it's important to re-adjust your budget and start cutting back on your consumption. If you continue to live your pre-unemployment lifestyle, your debt can quickly get out of hand and become increasingly difficult to pay off.
Identity theft is costly, time-consuming, and can dramatically lower your credit score, making life extremely difficult for many years while you work to correct the problem.
By Gerri Detweiler You've heard the standard advice: check your credit reports for free once a year at AnnualCreditReport.com. You may have even hear...
If you are job-hunting now or thinking about looking for a job next year, or if you are in a job that pulls credit reports, do your career a favor and take some time to look at your credit reports right now.
A lot of those people are facing a grim Catch 22. Because of the recession, they lost their livelihood and good credit, and now that damaged credit is preventing them from a finding a job to fix the problem.
There are a number of "sins" we can commit against our credit scores that can hurt ourselves, and others, in the long run.
Thanks to a new kind of credit score, more borrowed money may end up in the hands of the increasing number of Americans who are sliding down the econo...
WASHINGTON -- For many of the 6.4 million Americans who have been unemployed for six months or longer, the prospect of finding a new job is daunting e...
Have you taken some time off from paying attention to your credit? Whether you need to rebuild your credit or just continue keeping it in check, my number one rule is to be aware.
With millions of Americans nursing damaged credit reports after a bruising recession, some lawmakers are seeking to limit the use of credit reports as...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — It's hard enough to find a job in this economy, and now some people are facing another hurdle: Potential employers are holding ...
