Tips to Raise Your Credit Score

Here are five ways you can use that bit of knowledge, along with some other expert know-how, to boost your credit rating:1. Pay Bills Before the Statement DateTypically, the balance as of your last statement date is the balance that will report to the bureaus, says Barry Paperno, consumer operations manager with myFICO.com, the consumer division of FICO, the company that created the FICO score.