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Will credit score drop after replacing credit cards?

Submitted by on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 22:20
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I have lost 2 credit cards yesterday. I don???t have any wish to cancel the credit accounts. I would like to have new cards with new numbers. What I want to know is that, will my credit score be hurt after canceling the credit cards?


Creditors will cancel the old account number, and issue you a new card, retaining the significant dates of the account itself.
Closing an account, even if that is how they did it (and they wont) is not actually as detrimental to a credit score as some believe. All you immediately lose is the CL on the account, which could affect your overall % util. Closed and open accounts both count in the calculation of your average age of accounts, so there would be no impact there. Closed accounts normally remain in your credit file for up to ten years after the date of closing, so you would have ten years before that could impact your credit score.
If they reissue the card with its prior CL, there would be no adverse credit scoring impact.
Just make sure that when the account is reported, the original date the account was opened is retained.


Submitted by Lian on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 01:34

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