How Many Credit Scores are There?
Filed in archive Credit by on February 22, 2006

While we all know about normal way it is done, evidently there has been another score that they have been keeping tabs on us with. He calls it a "hidden credit score" - your Bankruptcy Risk Score.
Here is how he reports it:"While your credit score is a score assessed to you based to a large extent on your history of obtaining credit and paying off debt
, the Bankruptcy Risk Score measures how likely you are to file bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Risk Score is exclusively for lenders provided by the credit reporting agencies and not available to individual consumers."Eventually there will probably be pressure from the public for the credit bureaus to start revealing what their criteria are for determining how this system, that evidently is affecting our financial capabilities based upon unknown methodology, works and affects us.
Unless there is a public outcry and pressure that begins to be heard, they probably won't feel any need to let us know that it exists or how its existence interacts with our finances.
About the only thing that has leaked out is that this Bankruptcy score works the opposite of the credit score, that's about all we have heard about it.
Yet, in just the little I have heard, the end result has to pretty much be the same. If you're at bankruptcy risk, obviously you would also be a credit risk.
There would be some slight variations, but I can't see how it would be a huge harbinger to worry about, other than the fact that it hasn't been openly acknowledged or revealed.
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