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Does Checking Your Credit Ruin Your Credit Score?

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Mystery Hour Question

Why does having a credit check, affect your credit rating? Ryan, Swadlincote

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Name: Michael, Byfleet

Qualification: Independent Financial Advisor, with 15 years of Mortgage experience.

Answer: Your credit rate definitely does get poorer if you do keep applying for credit cards.

Affectively the more you apply, the more desperate you look and your showing that you have been declined previously.