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The credit score your insurer uses isn't your FICO

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Your credit score is an important metric that lenders and credit cards use to determine if you qualify for financing. While that score isn’t important to your car insurance company, they likely use the same underlying credit data to calculate another number that can significantly impact what you pay…

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    Your credit score is an important metric that lenders and credit cards use to determine if you qualify for financing. While that score isn’t important to your car insurance company, they likely use the same underlying credit data to calculate another number that can significantly impact what you pay…

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