Personal Finance Crossword
Across
- 5. 10-25 days after the billing date you pay your bills if you qualify with no interest added
- 6. Credit bureaus that gather information from businesses, they have to pay a special fee in order for access
- 8. Major of the creditworthiness based on the analysis of your credit and financial history
- 9. A legal business that makes high interest loans based on the value of personal possessions pledged to collateral
- 10. Person or company hired by a creditor to collect the overdue balance in the account
- 12. Business that gathers, stores, and sells credit information to other businesses
- 13. Borrowing someone else's money
- 14. Property pledged to assure repayment of a loan
- 16. Buying something without thinking about it
- 20. Service available to charge customers where purchases are not billed to the customer until much later than normal
- 21. Treating people differently based on prejudice rather than individual merit
- 22. State law that sets a maximum interest rate that may be charged for consumer loans
- 25. Legal scam that uses online pop-up messages or emails to deceive you into disclosing personal information
- 26. Value of property you possess (bank accounts, invetments, real estate)
- 27. Complete record of your borrowing and repayment performance
- 28. Responsible attitude toward honoring obligations, often judged on a person's credit history
- 29. Customer pays bills on the due date or within the 10 day grace period
Down
- 1. Person who borrows money from others
- 2. A sudden need of cash, preestablished amount can be borrowed on demand with no collateral
- 3. Written statement of a customer's credit history
- 4. Person or business that loans money to others
- 7. Involves providing a service for which you pay later
- 11. Checking several places to be sure you are getting the best price for equal quality
- 15. Unlicensed who charge illegally high interest rates
- 17. Legal process that allows part of you paycheck to be withheld for payment of debt
- 18. Total dollar amount of all of interest and fees you payoff the result of credit
- 19. Customer pays bills before the due dates
- 23. A number that shows the likelihood that you will repay that debt as agreed
- 24. Potential creditors will grant you money if they determine you at a good risk
- 28. Someone who promises to pay if the borrower fails to pay