What is the process for approaching the credit bureaus to remove old stuff (over 7 years) from my credit reports?. Created by Jacqueline H. business-finance-import - credit-import

Old stuff on my credit report?

Jacqueline H @Jacqueline H

May 2021 4 70 Report

Old stuff on my credit report?

What is the process for approaching the credit bureaus to remove old stuff (over 7 years) from my credit reports?

Business & Finance / Credit

Sgt Big Red

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You should see the date the debt is scheduled to drop from your credit report on the line entry.

CRA's computers know when to delete outdated items. If a debt is still showing and is not a judgment, then contact the reporting agency and ask it to be removed. They do sometimes make a mistake.

NOTE: judgments can stay on longer then just 10 years, the FCRA states that judgments will remain on ones credit report up to 10 years or in accordance with your state statues, which ever is the longer period. Some states allow a judgment to be reported for up to 20 years, and some states can renew the judgment if it has not been paid.

TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE

CHAPTER 41--CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION

SUBCHAPTER III--CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES

Sec. 1681c. Requirements relating to information contained in

consumer reports

(2) Civil suits, civil judgments, and records of arrest that, from

date of entry, antedate the report by more than seven years or until the

governing statute of limitations has expired, whichever is the longer

period.

If this debt is for credit, then it should be removed once it has reached the expiration date after the 7 1/2 year reporting period.

Running of Reporting Period - Section 605 [15 U.S.C. § 1681c]

As of December 29, 1997 the reporting period runs 7 ½ years (7 years plus 180 days) from the date (month and year) of the last delinquency (known as "last missed payment:).

CatDad

7 years is the max. allowable time for negative items to be on your credit file as allowed under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.....

Send the credit bureaus a letter via Certified Mail + Return Receipt stating:

Per the Fair Credit Reporting Act, I am requesting validation that this item is being reporting within the 7-year time frame as allowed under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Note: Bankruptcies and judgments can stay longer on your credit files...up to ten years.

tatis

unfavourable products acuually stay on your comments for 7 years and a hundred and eighty days from the date of first delinquincy. If the debt incurred on jan. a million of 2000, it wont burst off of your comments til june 30, 2008. Is it achieveable which you arent previous the 7 yrs. a hundred and eighty day mark?