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One of the best things you can do is to follow some financial planning tips and advice to improve your credit. Having a better credit score can mean savings of hundreds or thousands of dollars when it comes to loans, especially car loans and mortgages. Instead of paying all of these interest rate finance charges, why not save towards your child’s education, or for your retirement. By improving your credit and having a better credit score, then you’ll definitely be able to get better rates which helps you to save more money in the long run.

The first thing you want to do when embarking on fixing your credit is to look over your current credit report. Don’t fall for the online ads or television commercials about free credit reports, because those have hidden monthly fees attached to them. Everyone American can check their own credit report once a year for free. Just Google “free annual credit report”. Look for anything that may be an error in your report like a false missed payment or even a duplicate entry with a missed payment on it, because then that missed payment is hurting you twice. Call the credit agency and get any errors taken care of.

Then, the next step is to start paying your bills on time, every single month. Make this a huge priority, because if you miss a month, then that just sends all of your progress backwards. Make sure to get caught up on any payments that you are behind on too. Paying down debt will definitely help you out, so if you can contribute more than your monthly minimums, then definitely try to do that. Start with the credit card that has the higher APR, and work your way down. If you can get your total balance to less than 50% of the total available credit across all cards, then your credit score will definitely start to go up.

Lastly, don’t cancel credit cards when you get them paid off. You can cut them up, or you can freeze them so it’s harder for you to access them, but whatever you do, don’t cancel the account, because then that reduces your total available credit, and it can make your existing balance on other cards to be above that 50% barrier.

Good luck on improving your credit! It definitely can be done, but it just takes focus and dedication to get it done.

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