The CIBIL Score plays an important role in the determination of your credit eligibility for a loan or credit card, as per RBI guidelines money lending institutions have to consider CIBIL ratings before rejecting and giving loans for credit cards, Each and every employee knows the importance of CIBIL score and its use.
How to improve CIBIL Score
All the EMI links are based on CIBL score, Credit Information Report in simple form CIR summarizes your payment history of loans and credit cards, and based on this credit history Credit Score is generated.
The CIBIL Score is ranging from 300-900, your CIBL score is based on your pan card, if you have a bad CIBIL score follow the below process to improve your ratings.
Why CIBIL Score is important
This CIBIL score plays an important role in the loan approval process and credit card approval process, When you have applied for a loan the banker’s first thing as checking your CIBIL score, your loan is based on CIBIL scores, if you applied for a home loan and other credit loans.
Bankers check your CIBIL score to grant loans if you’re CIBIL score is less than 700 they do not give the home loan amount you needed, for example, if your CIBIL score is greater than 800, bankers will give loans amount you needed easily to you because they believe you.
PAN Card?
Increasing and decreasing of CIBL score depends on your pan card, you have to maintain at least more than 50000 transactions on the PAN Card, and all your EMI and credits links are based on your pan card.
How to increase CIBIL Score to 800
- Clear dues on time.
- Secured and unsecured loans.
- Reduce the Use of Credit Limits.
- Increase your credit limit.
- Avoid multiple applications for credits.
Clear Dues On Time
Clear the loans taken from the banks and credit cards payments speedily as much as possible, if you are doing this properly CIBL show positive ratings, in case you are unable to clear the credit card payments and loans because of money problems, contact your CIBIL rating agency, you have to remember some important points, Late payment leads to piling up of interest and would require more money to clear dues, you have to pay EMI and bills speedily as much as possible before the due date.
Secured and Unsecured Loans
You need to maintain secured loans, and keep your unsecured loans ( personal loans ) under check, always try to maintain an 80-20% ratio between your secured and unsecured loans, 80% is the secured loan fraction, if you have a number of unsecured loans is grater then secured loans bank will take this as minus point, so we have to avoid unsecured loans and maintain secured loans, The impact on your credit score is positive when you repay your secured loans on time.
Reduce the Use of Credit Limit
You are suggested to use 30% of the credit limit and if you used more than 50% it says that you may have issues in the repayment of the debt it will affect CIBIL ratings, and it leads to a decrease in CIBIL ratings when CIBIL ratings are decreased it is difficult to grant a loan from the bank.
Increase your Credit Limit
If your ratings are excellent, banks will offer you to increase your credit limit, it doesn’t mean you have to spend more money on it will give confidence of the bank in you, you have the right to ask your bank to increase your credit limit, So, the 30% utilization rule and getting enhanced credit limit is very important for a higher rating on the CIBIL Scale.
Avoid Multiple Applications for Credits
Avoiding too many applications for requesting loans and enquires and credit cards at the same time will affect CIBIL ratings, to improve CIBIL scores and ratings maintain a minimum number of credit applications for loans and enquires and credit cards and avoid submitting these forms at a time.
Errors/Mistakes in Credit Report
You have to check your CIBIL score every six months, If you find any inaccurate and wrong account balance, a loan account that has been closed but shows active in the report, then get a copy of your credit report and get it corrected, You will be provided with a dispute resolution form for the correction process, once the error is identified and cleared the credit score improves automatically.
Few tips that will have a positive impact on your score or rating
- You have to gain permanent job security.
- If you are doing some business you have to pay IT Returns.
- If you are taking loans from banks clear it as much as possible.
- clear the loans without any arrears.
- Avoid lone arrears as much as possible, and use only half of the credit limit.
- It is better to take one card with a high limit rather than more cards with a low limit.
- Do not delay or miss any payments.
By following the above suggestions you can increase your CIBL ratings
Were the CIBIL Score Used:
- The loan approval process.
- In determining your loan amount or credit limit.
- In managing your existing relationship.
- Telecom operators.
- Interest Rates.
- Insurance Premiums.
Factors Affecting CIBIL Score
- Availing of too many loans.
- Too many loan enquiries.
- Delayed loan payments.
- Delay in dews.
Credit Ratings
CIBIL score between 800 to 900 will give you an immediate loan. This same condition will apply for 750 to 850, now 700 to 750 they will give a loan. If your mistakes are corrected, your CIBIL score will increase.
If you are in the range of 650 to 700 it is their choice to give lone to you or not, below 650 they do not chance to get loans from banks, so we have to maintain minimum CIBIL ratings to get credits and loans from banks.
Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor | Very Bad |
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800 to 850 | 750 to 799 | 700 to 749 | 650 to 699 | 600 to 649 | 300 to 599 |
Unlimited Access to Check CIBIL Score & Report
Everyone who needs to check their CIBIL can follow the steps to check their score or ratings from the official website of CIBIL by paying user charges or processing fees of Rs.550/- from the following steps.
- Open https://www.cibil.com/creditscore.
- Fill out the online request form.
- Make a payment of RS.550/-.
- Complete the online authentication
- Click on submit button at the bottom of the page
- The credit report is emailed to you.
How to Get a Free CIBIL Score
The credit score is a numerical expression based on a level analysis of a person’s credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of an individual. A credit score is primarily based on credit report information typically sourced from credit bureaus, you can also check your CIBIL score for free by the following process.
- Open the given URL https://myscore.cibil.com/CreditView/enroll.page?enterprise=CIBIL&offer=FACR.
- Create your CIBIL account and Fill out the form with the necessary details such as Date of birth, Gender, Postal Address, and Identity Proof Number (PAN, Aadhaar, etc.), Accept the terms and conditions.
- Once you accept the terms and conditions.
- Click on the submit button.
- CIBIL will show your Credit Information Report.