Credit:  What is Credit?


  • Knowing and Understanding Your Credit  -- The best general guide explaining what credit is and why having good credit is important.  A joint project of the Fannie Mae Foundation and the National Endowment for Financial Education, it covers (available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Policsh and Russian):
      1. Credit reports and credit scoring
      2. How to improve your credit
      3. Creating a credit history
      4. Using a budget, checking account, and savings account to take control of your credit
       
  • Credit and Credit Management, What is Credit? -- a brief introduction into credit and why it is important, provided by the Digital Federal Credit Union.


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