# @besteggplatform on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=AlWFZTt04tM
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- **Posted:** 2020-09-22T16:59:51.000+00:00

## Caption

Just Ask Episode 6

Rod Griffin – Sr Director of Consumer Education & Advocacy, Experian 

How to Protect & Improve Your Credit Score

Improving your credit score takes time, effort, and a lot of responsible decision-making.
Whether your credit score’s already high or you’re working your way up, you want to protect what you’ve built, right? This week, Rod Griffin, the Sr Director of Consumer Education & Advocacy at Experian, joins us to share tips on how to raise your credit score quickly, credit risk factors to avoid, steps to take if you’re struggling to pay your lenders, and much more

Experian helps protect, understand, and improve your credit. Start with your free Experian credit report and FICO score. https://www.experian.com/

Experian collects and aggregates information on over one billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million U.S. businesses.

What is Best Egg? 
Best Egg is an online lending platform that provides fast personal loans for anything from home improvement to debt consolidation to medical bills. If you need to borrow money, Best Egg can help. https://www.bestegg.com/

This Episode's Questions
1. What is a credit score and how is it different or similar to a FICO score or a Vantage Score?
2. What is the best way for someone to see and understand their credit score?
3. How often does your credit score get updated?  How often do creditors provide updates to you?
4. What are some of the biggest factors that will cause a credit score to decrease?
5. If someone experiences a major life event that they know will cause them to be unable to keep up with their credit payments, what should they do?  How does that work?
6. Right now with the COVID-19 pandemic, are there options to protect your credit score if you are unable to keep up with credit payments?  How does that work?
7. Other than doing the opposite of the items that cause a score to decrease, are there other steps a person might take to increase their credit score?
8. If you could leave our listeners with one word of advice for the best thing they can do to repair their credit score, what would it be?

If you have a financial question in mind,  just ask! Reach out to us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, include the hashtag #JustAskBestEgg after your question, and we’ll do our best to get you the answers you’re seeking in a future installment of Just Ask!

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