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๐ง๐ฑ10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT CAN AFFECT YOUR CREDIT SCORE ๐ง๐ฑ
While you probably have a general idea of what your credit score means, some things that affect credit score may surprise you.

Reporting Errors
Errors can end up on your credit report and are items that are flat out inaccurate. According to an FTC Consumer Report, 1 in 5 Americans have errors on their credit report.
Parking Tickets
Leave a parking ticket unpaid long enough and the city will likely send it to collections. Because collections involve outstanding debts, they can appear on your credit reports and do big damage to your credit scores.
Utility Bills
Similarly, unpaid utility bills can affect your credit score numbers negatively, when the debt is sold to a third-party debt collector. The third-party collector can report the account to the credit bureaus.
Medical Bills
Medical debts can directly affect your credit if youโve used a credit card to pay for them. Health care providers will send unpaid bills to collections after a certain period of time, usually between 90 and 180 days.
Delinquent Child Support
Unpaid child support is considered debt. And it can be reported to the credit bureaus by the municipality or agency responsible for collecting the payments.
Paying Off a Loan
If you pay off your auto loan and itโs the only installment loan you have on the books, your credit score can take a small hit. Sounds backward, but itโs how credit works.
Getting a new Cellphone Plan
Cellphone providers also often pull your credit when you sign up for a plan, which again can be a hard inquiry on your report.
That Old Gym Membership
An unpaid gym membership can wind up in collections, so itโs important to cancel one youโre no longer using. Donโt just close or cancel the card you were using to pay the membership. Cancel the membership itself.
Not Paying Your Taxes
Leave Uncle Samโs annual bill unpaid long enough, and it might file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien against you. And a lien can seriously damage your score.
Applying for an Insurance Policy
Insurance companies might access your credit history before granting you a policy. That access is usually a hard inquiry. And while one hard inquiry wonโt affect your score much, several can. So apply cautiously.