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Credit card issuers increasingly are switching customers from fixed-rate to variable-rate cards, in part because the new credit card law will limit lenders’ ability to raise rates.

Your credit score is an all-important number, more so today than ever before. Traditionally your credit rating, or credit score, affected your ability to borrow money. However, nowadays it can also have an impact on your ability to find a job, rent an apartment, or get a security clearance.

It almost seems as if your credit score is now more important than your social security number — something many people realize too late.

But what is a good credit score?