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When you pay more than the minimum balance on your credit card each month, you reduce the principal balance. This does not change your interest rate, but over time there will be less interest total on the total decreasing balance. However, to make this work even better, you could also add in what equals one interest payment on top of the "extra" payment, so even more goes to the principal each time not applied to the interest. When you pay off a credit card more quickly, it will positively affect your credit rating.

** Even adding $5 to $10 above the minimum+interest can begin to make a dent in your amount owed. But you must pay on time to get any benefit at all from doing these larger or "extra" payments.

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