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> > Your net worth would skyrocket, but your credit score wouldn’t budge. Seems fishy, doesn’t it?

Not at all.

1) no one knows I inherited that money unless I tell them (ok, the bank and the IRS do - the bank can't announce it, the IRS doesn't announce it...)

2) my instant change in net worth does not affect my ability to handle my finances month-to-month

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>2) my instant change in net worth does not affect my ability to handle my finances month-to-month

idk man, if I inherited 1M USD, it would definitely affect my ability to handle my 3K USD monthly expense.

Sure, you have the money to cover those expenses. But will you? Simply inheriting the money doesn't answer that question. Receiving the money speaks nothing about your ability to manage it correctly.

If you have money to cover it, can't they have it forcibly taken from you? So what is there for them to worry about?

Not until long after you’ve spent it on everything else.

plenty of lottery winners get bigger piles of cash, and would be very poor folks to loan money to.

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