When it comes to your credit, knowledge is power. And now, with Credit Score available through CU1 Digital Banking, you have all the tools you need to understand your credit and know the right next steps to reach your financial goals. Credit Score is offered as a free benefit of your Credit Union 1 membership and using it has no impact on your credit score. Enroll now by logging in to Digital Banking.
Credit Score and More helps you stay on top of your credit by providing your latest credit score and report and understanding key factors that impact the score. It also monitors your credit daily and informs you by email if any significant changes are detected, such as a new account being opened, a change in address, employment, delinquency, or inquiry has been reported.
Yes, Credit Score and More will monitor and send email alerts when there has been a change to your credit profile.
Credit Score and More is entirely free to Credit Union 1 members.
Credit Score and More is a "soft inquiry" which does not affect a credit score. Lenders use "hard inquires" to make decisions about creditworthiness when you apply for loans.
The credit score will be updated every seven days and displayed in mobile and online banking. You can click "refresh score" as often as every day for an updated credit score.
Credit Score and More make it best to show the most relevant information from a credit report. If you think some information is wrong or inaccurate, you can obtain a free credit report from www.annualcreditreport.com and then dispute inaccuracies with each bureau individually. Each bureau has its process for correcting inaccurate information, but every Credit Union 1 Financial Credit Score and More user can "File a Dispute" with Transunion by clicking on the "Dispute" link within Credit Score and More. Transunion will share this with the other bureaus if the inaccuracy is verified.
Three major credit-reporting bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and Transunion) and two scoring models (FICO or VantageScore) determine credit scores. Financial institutions use different bureaus, as well as their own scoring models. Over 200 credit report factors may be considered when calculating a score, and each model may weigh credit factors differently, so no scoring model is identical.
Credit Union 1 uses it's own lending criteria for making loan decisions.