How can a collection keep being updated on my credit report?
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Cris P wants to know:
I was watching my credit report earlier this year and I noticed something on two collections. They have opened dates of 4/10/2002 and 7/31/2003, but they keep reporting it every single month. How do they do that? Does it cost them money to do that? And will the reports still fall off my credit after the open date? How badly is it hurting my credit since they keep hitting it current?
I was watching my credit report earlier this year and I noticed something on two collections. They have opened dates of 4/10/2002 and 7/31/2003, but they keep reporting it every single month. How do they do that? Does it cost them money to do that? And will the reports still fall off my credit after the open date? How badly is it hurting my credit since they keep hitting it current?
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They keep reporting because you havent paid off the balances nor disputed the collection.
That can and will follow you for AT LEAST 10 years…
Some collection agencies update their reporting status on you to keep the account active with the bureaus to extend the time the account appears on your report. This is very deceiving of them, because most often the account is updated and the period of time the account is active appears to be extended. You will want to challenge this with the credit reporting agencies in writing. If you do, bureaus will correctly remove it 7 years from origination.
I’ve had good info about it here:
Hope that helps.