Can having a lot of debt and/or a bad credit score, prevent me from getting a job with the federal government?

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Maybe not outright, but it can if your position requires a clearance and your debt and poor finance history make you too much of a risk for any type of clearance.

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For a clearance, yes. I work in investigations.

Bad credit score more so than debt level. But they’re both red flags since you can be targeted by adversaries.

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