Creditors move accounts to a charge - off status when the bill hasn't been paid..
Not exact matches
This might also happen to you: you missed one bill payment because you
moved but without informing your
creditor about your new address, or, someone might have fraudulently opened an
account under your name.
Moving forward, your credit profile will continue to gather information from
creditors and companies where you have current open
accounts in addition to the
accounts you have since closed from the past.
(Charging off a debt is a strategy used by the original
creditor to
move the balance you owe from an asset to a liability, for
accounting purposes.
If an individual sold his or her house and
moved the money — say, to an offshore
account — he or she would be required to repay the money to the trustee before he or she would be discharged (be given bankruptcy status, and all the protection from
creditors that this provides).
Writing off the debt as a loss is an
accounting move for the
creditor.
If so, yours may be a case where the
creditor would be willing to
move the
account.
If you are successful in getting the
account moved back to the original
creditor, I would request that the
account be re-aged.
Dear Syed, In my experience, once a
creditor has
moved an
account into collections, they very rarely allow the
account to be
moved back.
Once those assets are
moved (e.g., disbursed to beneficiaries, transferred from a spendthrift - protected trust to a personal savings
account, withdrawn for personal use) they may become fair game to
creditors.
Writing off the debt as a loss is an
accounting move for the
creditor.