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Description of Business (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Description Of Business [Abstract] |
Percentage of Consumer Loans Assigned with FICO Score of Less Than 650 or No FICO Score | The following table shows the percentage of Consumer Loans assigned to us with either FICO® scores below 650 or no FICO® scores:
|  | For the Three Months Ended March 31,
Consumer Loan Assignment Volume |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Percentage of total unit volume with either FICO® scores below 650 or no FICO® scores |  | 96.7 | % |  | 96.3 | %
Schedule of Percentage of Consumer Loans Assigned Based on Unit Volumes | The following table shows the percentage of Consumer Loans assigned to us based on unit volumes under each of the programs for each of the last five quarters:
Quarter Ended |  | Portfolio Program |  | Purchase Program
March 31, 2014 |  | 91.7 | % |  | 8.3 | %
June 30, 2014 |  | 91.4 | % |  | 8.6 | %
September 30, 2014 |  | 90.5 | % |  | 9.5 | %
December 31, 2014 |  | 89.0 | % |  | 11.0 | %
March 31, 2015 |  | 88.6 | % |  | 11.4 | %

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