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Self Reviews

Updated February 19, 2025

Self

Build credit with a Self plan. It’s a loan in a bank-held Certificate of Deposit (CD) that you pay off in monthly installments. Each monthly payment gets reported to all three credit bureaus. That builds your all important credit payment history – which makes up 35% of your credit score.