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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Cora Lewis and Adriana Morga

How to improve your credit score if you've missed student loan payments

Financial Wellness Student Loans Credit Scores - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores drop now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. But there are things you can do to help your score rebound.

Courtney Alev, consumer advocate at Credit Karma, said it's understandable that people have missed payments because of the mixed messages around student loans.

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