The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported that the company that created FICO credit scores has instituted a score that tracks your adherence.\u00a0 No one outside of that company knows exactly how they might use the info in the future. They might not even know themselves.<\/p>\n\nIt\u2019s probably an accurate notion that people that stick with a program are more dependable. Whether it\u2019s a job or a payment plan or a health or medication plan.\u00a0 They want to know who they\u2019re dealing with. \u201cIf we give you this medicine are you likely to follow through?\u201d they are asking. But they\u2019re not really asking you\u2026 they\u2019re checking your score instead. It\u2019s such an overwhelming economic issue for their companies that they have to cut to the meat of the matter as quickly as possible and move on.<\/p>\n
\nThis whole subject reminds me of when my schoolteachers used to tell me, and my classmates, that\u00a0 \u201cthis is going on your permanent record.\u201d At first, as kids, we believed it. As we grew older we reasoned that they said things like that because they wanted to sound more Godlike. There is no permanent record, we reasoned. Oops. I guess we were wrong.\u00a0 There is a permanent record.<\/p>\n
\nHere is the big question for the future: If you don\u2019t have a good adherence score, will they even bother to treat you at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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