Missing a single student loan payment can be detrimental to your credit score, which is why it’s so important to dispute inaccurate information on your credit report and stay on top of payments. Read more.

If a debt collector has won a court case against you over unpaid debt and the civil judgment appears on your credit report, you might be able to remove it. Read this article to learn how. Read more.

Someone with a debt in collections can write a pay for delete letter to a collection agency to negotiate getting an item removed from credit reports in exchange for paying off the debt. Learn how it works in this article. Read more.

A 609 letter requests the disclosure of information on your credit report. Section 609 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act grants consumers full access to their credit reports. Read more.

A charge-off damages your credit report, but you can try to remove it by disputing it, or paying it and requesting a “pay-for-delete” arrangement. Read this article to learn how. Read more.

If you have a credit score of 580, you may find it difficult to get a home or auto loan or a credit card. If you do qualify, you’re likely to pay higher interest rates. But you can take steps to understand and improve your credit score. Read more.

It can seem overwhelming when you think about getting your credit back in shape, but there are two major actions you can take to do it: check your credit reports for errors to fix, and pay down debts. Read more.

With what you've heard about the challenges of having bad credit, you might think it's better to have no credit score at all. That might be oversimplifying things. Read this article to compare each situation. Read more.