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Just got a credit score update through MyFICO monitoring and Experian droppped my score 4 pts tied to an increased utilization of a Chase CC that I am an AU on. I thought AU accounts weren't factored by FICO.
AU account utilization absolutely factors in
@tjmolly wrote:Just got a credit score update through MyFICO monitoring and Experian droppped my score 4 pts tied to an increased utilization of a Chase CC that I am an AU on. I thought AU accounts weren't factored by FICO.
They're factored unless you fall afoul of the anti-abuse algorithm for FICO 8.
There's been some things posted lately because of the way the MF interface of all things presents it suggesting they don't count at all (sigh), but they can count in FICO 8 at any rate but it's always hard to get people to actually check whether they do or not (let everything else besides the AU report $0 and see if you take the known drop). FICO 9 not sure yet.
Part of the problem is the anti-abuse algorithm isn't nearly as well characterized as some other things for us when it comes to FICO.
Yep. I found this out several weeks ago when DW had a drop due to me allowing one card to report with high util... she'd been a naughty girl that month tho :-)