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How can I pimp my credit score?

Sonia | Greater London| 09/08/2018 | 2

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How can I pimp my credit score?

Holly Mackay's Response

There are many ways to repair your credit score and this article from This is Money is very informative www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cardsloans/article-1585131/Improve-credit-rating-history-score.html

 

As is the following detail on the Money Advice Service website: www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/how-to-improve-your-credit-rating

 

Good luck.

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Founder and MD Holly Mackay has been working in the investments space since 1998. She read Modern Languages at Oxford, with a special focus on Mediaeval French which was deeply interesting and arguably utterly useless.

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