In sweeping change, Biden administration to ban medical debt from credit reports

[Abolishinist]

16. I've never understood the whole credit card score thing.

Several years ago my score was around 740. For fun and games I decided to see what I could do to increase it. So I applied for, and received, a number of new cards (not a bad thing, I got a lot of cash incentives doing so). So I now have a total of 25 cards, with a total credit limit of $270,000. I also pay off my cards before the end of the billing cycle, so I might have tops around $1,500 in outstanding debt at any one time. So what do I get for all this? My last Experian score was 850.

But this is what I don't understand, how does this have anything at all do to with my ability to pay off my credit card debt. My income level is what I choose to give them, and then there's this... apparently if I have a mortgage I'm a BETTER credit risk then if I own my house free and clear, which I do. And I don't have an auto loan, which is another strike against me.

None of this makes sense. No mortgage debt, no auto loan, and your score is lower.

Duh.