COVID Tests, and Reversing a Credit Score Drop

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Finding (and paying for) COVID tests is overly complicated. This episode, Sean and occasional co-host Sara Rathner start off by talking about how you can navigate getting COVID tests right now. They also talk about avoiding COVID testing scams. Then Sean and Sara answer a listener’s question about how to reverse a credit score drop. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Timestamps: This Week in Your Money segment: 0:00 - 8:49 Money Question segment: 8:50 - 24:40 Also, we are running a sweepstakes ahead of our new Nerdy Book Club series. You can enter for a chance to win Bola Sokunbi's book "Clever Girl Finance: Ditch Debt, Save Money and Build Real Wealth" by emailing [email protected] with the subject "Book Sweepstakes” during the Sweepstakes Period. Include the following information: your first and last name, email address, zip code and phone number. Check out our book club page for more info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast, where we answer your personal finance questions
0:38.6	and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money.
0:42.0	I'm Sean Files.
0:42.9	And I'm Sarah Rathner filling in for Liz Weston.
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1:06.3	This episode, Sarah and I answer a listener's question about how to reverse a credit score drop.
1:12.3	But first, an hour this week in your money segment, we are talking about how to navigate
1:16.6	getting COVID tests right now.
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