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Lindsey has a job with a monthly take-home pay of $3,500. Using the lender's guidelines for maximum debt safety ratio, what maximum debt burden per month can she assume? (Show all work.)

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A debt safety ratio of 20% is the maximu...

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The key to creditworthiness is to maintain your debt safety ratio at 50% or above.

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You should not give your credit card account number over the phone to people or organizations who call you.

Using credit is the ideal way to meet basic living expenses.

An improper use of extended credit is buying:

A proper use of open account credit would be to buy:

The intent of the Wage Earner Plan is to eliminate all of a debtor's obligations.

Which of the following modes of identity theft involves thieves obtaining your personal information from financial institutions and other sources under false pretenses?

Debit cards work like writing a check.

Clare's annual gross salary is $36,000, and her after-tax income is $28,800. What is Clare's maximum recommended monthly consumer credit payment?

Which of the following is an example of phishing?

Lenders' guidelines say that you are likely to have financial difficulties if your personal credit obligations exceed _____ of your take-home pay.

You have a $926 balance on your credit card account. The minimum payment on your account is 2% of the latest balance or $20, whichever is greater. What will be the minimum payment this month?

It is necessary to give your Social Security number for identification when using a credit card.

Any credit card purchase will effectively be an interest-free loan if you have a zero balance when the grace period begins and you:

Credit cards with very low minimum payment requirements are in the consumers' best interest.

A credit card application requests information that is routinely used to predict creditworthiness.

Most families have only one source for consumer credit.

Which of the following is a result of excess unused credit capacity?

Mike has a MasterCard with an annual fee of $25, an 18% interest, and a $1,000 credit limit. He always pays the total outstanding balance monthly. His most recent monthly statement lists the previous month's payment, new charges in the current month totaling $1,500, and a $30 fee. The fee is most likely the result of: