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Medical Bill Impact on FICO

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Medical Bill Impact on FICO

I am certain I read something about medical bills under a certain amount not impacting the FICO as of FICO08, but I can't seem to find anything about it now. Can someone enlighten me?Thanks!!

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Jazzzy
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Re: Medical Bill Impact on FICO

I couldn't find this infor for FICO08. I don't know if/when we'll see it.

 

Are these paid medical collections? Have you tried to get them off of your reports so that you won't have to worry about them?

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smallfry
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Re: Medical Bill Impact on FICO

I think the magic number is 100 Dollars. As far as hurting your scores I don't know how much.

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fused
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Re: Medical Bill Impact on FICO

 


@smallfry wrote:

I think the magic number is 100 Dollars. As far as hurting your scores I don't know how much.


Correct! Collections under $100 will not affect FICO scores. Also, it won't matter if the collection is medical or not

 

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Jazzzy
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Re: Medical Bill Impact on FICO

Do we have any idea when FICO 08 may start to be used?

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fused
Moderator Emeritus

Re: Medical Bill Impact on FICO

 


@LynetteM wrote:

Do we have any idea when FICO 08 may start to be used?


Its my understanding that it has been offered to lenders, but it might be quite awhile before its widely used. Its still hard to believe that some lenders are still using TU 98, are you kidding me. LOL!

 

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