Christine DiGangi

Getting a big check from the IRS is exciting, but it might not be the best for your long-term financial health.

To improve and maintain a good credit score, consumers should focus on keeping debt levels low. Unfortunately, that's a lot trickier to do than it sounds.

If you don't do your research, you may end up with higher expenses than you anticipated having when you took out an auto loan.

Need a reason to work on your credit? How about thousands of reasons? Great credit can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You received an offer for free credit monitoring after a data breach, but what does that mean, and how does it actually work?

Just because someone tells you to pay a debt doesn't mean you should. Some debts have expiration dates.

FICO will reportedly announce a new credit scoring model that uses bill payments to determine how creditworthy a consumer is.