Your Job Will Come: Protect your credit score while unemployed

Even as U.S. job losses slowed in August, the unemployment rate for the month hit a 26-year high at 9.7 percent. And the underemployment rate – which includes part-time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want work but have given up looking – reached a record 16.8 percent. Now is not the time to grow complacent in your job search or go let your credit score slip. WalletPop editor and writer Aaron Crowe talks with Carrie Coghill Kuntz, a contributing editor and spokesperson for CreditFYI, about how to protect your credit score and future while unemployed.