Bad Credit
When you use credit cards and/or borrow money in other ways, you generate a credit score. Bad credit means you have a poor credit score. There are multiple ways of ending up with bad credit. Perhaps the most common of these is being late with payments or missing payments all together. You can also damage your credit rating by charging purchases that exceed your credit card limit, or by declaring bankruptcy.
Your credit score matters. Lending organizations use your credit scores to determine whether or not to lend you money. They also use them to determine what rate of interest to charge you in lending that money. If your score is poor, you may be denied, or approved but at a high rate of interest.
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