Once you pay off a high balance on a credit card how soon will that affect your credit score?

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Once you have paid the credit card balance off it will affect your score the following month. This is because the credit agencies only update your credit once a month. So the month following the payment would reflect the new balance of $0 and the score would be raised at that time.

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