{"id":26122,"date":"2025-03-21T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/?post_type=breaking_news&#038;p=26122"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:31:57","slug":"record-number-of-americans-fear-credit-rejections-and-struggle-with-emergency-savings","status":"publish","type":"breaking_news","link":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/breaking_news\/record-number-of-americans-fear-credit-rejections-and-struggle-with-emergency-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Number of Americans Fear Credit Rejections and Struggle with Emergency Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-03-21T19:00:53+05:30\">21\/03\/2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A record number of Americans are worried about being rejected for credit. 34% of people think they will be denied an auto loan, 48% fear they won\u2019t qualify for a mortgage, 32% worry about not getting a credit card, and 39% believe they won\u2019t get approved for a credit limit increase. As a result, 8.5% of Americans aren\u2019t even applying for credit because they assume they\u2019ll be rejected. Moreover, only 63% of people feel they could cover a $2,000 emergency, which is the lowest percentage ever recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f2f2f0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f2f2f0;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"617\" data-attachment-id=\"26124\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/breaking_news\/record-number-of-americans-fear-credit-rejections-and-struggle-with-emergency-savings\/attachment\/1000068582\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000068582-png.webp\" data-orig-size=\"644,617\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1000068582\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000068582-300x287.webp\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000068582-png.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" src=\"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000068582-png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26124 not-transparent\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000068582-png.webp 644w, https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1000068582-300x287.webp 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of Americans are worried about being rejected for credit. 34% of people think they will be denied an auto loan, 48% fear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26122","breaking_news","type-breaking_news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry","rows"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/breaking_news\/26122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/breaking_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/breaking_news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/breaking_news\/26122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26125,"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/breaking_news\/26122\/revisions\/26125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbreakingwire.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}