No credit card required
Browse credit cards from a variety of issuers to see if there's a better card for you.
I'm planning to take out a loan against my 403(b) retirement account (this is an account related to my current, post-retirement job; I already receive a fixed pension payment from my previous government job). This loan poses little risk to me--even if for some reason I did not pay it off within five years, there's no penalty if it's treated as a withdrawal because I'm 61.
Since I'm essentially borrowing from myself, does this loan get reported to the credit bureaus? I've had pension loans in the past, but that was before I paid attention to my credit reports/scores, so I'm not sure how they were treated.
I've already got a good mix of credit, so it isn't like I need to have another loan on my report--it's more curiosity than anything else.
I just googled loan 403(b) credit report
and the consensus appears to be that the loan will not appear on your reports. I'd spend time reading the first dozen hits in that search.
Great, thanks!
That's what I thought made intuitive sense, but intuition when it comes to credit matters is seldom reliable. ![]()
@LexieCat wrote:I'm planning to take out a loan against my 403(b) retirement account (this is an account related to my current, post-retirement job; I already receive a fixed pension payment from my previous government job). This loan poses little risk to me--even if for some reason I did not pay it off within five years, there's no penalty if it's treated as a withdrawal because I'm 61.
Since I'm essentially borrowing from myself, does this loan get reported to the credit bureaus? I've had pension loans in the past, but that was before I paid attention to my credit reports/scores, so I'm not sure how they were treated.
I've already got a good mix of credit, so it isn't like I need to have another loan on my report--it's more curiosity than anything else.
I've personally never heard of a 403(b)/401(k) loan reporting.
To add a data point, the ones I've had in the past definitely didn't report. My accounts were with Fidelity.