Guide 1 - Credit Rating

Credit Rating

Credit repair is an important tool in the battle to becoming debt free - especially if debt consolidation is your preferred tool. The first step in ensuring your credit rating is right is to find out what lenders know about you, and to make sure it is accurate.

This ClearDebt credit rating guide provides:

• Information about your rights to information about your credit rating
• Contact details for the main UK credit agencies
• Sample letters you can use to get a copy of your credit report
• What can improve your credit score
• Factors that injure your credit rating

This guide may help both those who are in the early stages of debt management, considering a re-mortgage or debt consolidation loan or who have been through bankruptcy or an IVA and want to begin the process of repairing their credit rating.

You can download the credit rating guide here.

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