@Anonymous_ wrote:
@ncalb55 wrote:
Don’t ever close a credit card account. It will have a negative effect on your score.
I agree. The two main reasons to close a credit card account are (a) if the card has an annual fee, and (b) if the cardholder has an impulse control issue.
I can think of one other reason to close a credit card account. That would be to avoid additional "damage" in the event of identity theft. In my opinion, the fewer credit accounts one has, the less clean-up would be required if identity theft did occur.
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