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Hello everyone and welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show,

where we deliver insight on what you need to know for a meaningful and successful retirement. If you are

planning for or living in retirement, this is the show for you. I'm Devin and John Ross is here

again with me today. Hey, John. Howdy. So John, let's answer some listener questions.

All right. I like it. We've had some come in that we need to address.

I think it's pretty important.

I have one that came in first on keeping a balance on a credit card and what that actually does for your credit score.

And then you have one that you want to address about hidden cameras.

Yeah.

Specifically, hidden cameras in your parents' nursing home.

Yeah, the granny cam. Yeah,

and the legality of that, and who knows what else you'll get into on that. So let's jump right into

this episode. So this first question that I'll take here, it comes from Joel. Joel said,

hey, I listen to your podcast on keeping your credit score up during retirement.

Does it make sense to keep a balance on a credit card to get my score higher?

Okay.

That's an interesting question.

And it's actually something that I've heard from people before.

And one of the reasons this question stood out to me is I saw an article in Forbes the other day

that addressed almost this identical issue.

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