The Importance of Checking Your FICO Score

KT: Do you think it's a good idea to check your score every time your financial institution allows you to on the monthly statement? Susie: I never do because I do not know if it affects my FICO score or not. Why should you check it all the time? Because we happen to live in a day and an age when identity theft is rampant, she says. KT: The reason we don't check our FICO scores now all the time is our credit is frozen.