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“Your credit score — that all-important passport within the financial world — may be about to change. And it won’t necessarily be because of anything you did or didn’t do. The Fair Isaac Corporation, the company that creates the widely used three-digit FICO score, is tweaking its formula. Consumers in good financial standing should see their scores bounce a bit higher. But millions of people already in financial distress may experience a fall — meaning they’ll have more trouble getting loans or will pay more for them. Lenders use FICO scores to judge how likely you are to make timely payments on your loans. But they’re also used in lots of other ways, and can influence how much you pay for car insurance to whether you’ll qualify to rent a new apartment. The changes, reported on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal, don’t alter the main ingredients of your score, but they do take a more finely tuned view of certain financial behaviors that indicate signs of financial weakness.“
