If you have a mix of old and new collection accounts, paying off the ones that occurred most recently is going to be more beneficial to your score. (creditsesame.com)
Usually these accounts were not the same ones that were deleted before, but will be a new collection account that a new collection agency took over to collect on. (mycreditsolutions.com)
The addition of any new collection account to your credit reports is likely to be problematic, but the degree of the damage is going to depend upon other score factors from your credit reports. (fidelity.com)