If
you disputed something on your credit report but lost the battle, submitting a statement outlining your side is probably a good idea, if you can do so coherently in 100 words.
According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (enforced by the Federal Trade Commission) if
you dispute something on your credit report and the credit reporting agency can't verify that it is proven inaccurate it has to be removed from your report within 30 - 45 days.
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Not exact matches
And, if there is
something you feel requires additional information to describe an extenuating circumstance or otherwise provide context to
something negative
on your report, additions made to the Fair
Credit Reporting Act in 1996 allow you to add a 100 - word statement to any of the reports that include an item you
dispute but wasn't removed because it was verified by the creditor.
You could also contact the
credit bureau and
dispute the collection
on your account and if the collection agency does not respond to the
dispute with sufficient evidence within
something like 30 days the
credit bureau will have to erase the collections from your
credit report.
Worst of all, they may suggest you
dispute any and all reports
on your
credit score regardless of their legitimacy or they may outright suggest you do
something that is patently illegal.
And, if there is
something you feel requires additional information to describe an extenuating circumstance or otherwise provide context to
something negative
on your report, additions made to the Fair
Credit Reporting Act in 1996 allow you to add a 100 - word statement to any of the reports that include an item you
dispute but wasn't removed because it was verified by the creditor.
Bureaus required to investigate
disputes By law, any time a consumer says there is
something wrong
on his or her reports, the
credit bureaus are required to conduct «a reasonable investigation» into the
disputed information and remove anything they can't verify as accurate.
Hello I am writing to you to
Dispute something that is still
on my
Credit Report that should of been off since since 2010
After all, you could very well have
disputed something that shouldn't be
on your
credit statement in the first place.
Question: I was reviewing my
credit report and I decided
on disputing something negative.
If you see
something wrong
on your
credit report,
dispute it.
If they put
something on your
credit report, you can
dispute it and get it thrown out.
«
Something that is put
on the
credit card can be
disputed but once money has left your account, if you use the debit card, you can
dispute it but the money is usually gone until it's resolved.»
If you
dispute something as inaccurate, but the creditor verifies that it is accurate — it will show «
disputed» but «verified»
on your
credit report — hurting your credibility and score.
Up until now the onus was definitely
on the consumer (you and me), and even when we are right about
something if the creditor responded to the
dispute request saying the debt is valid the
credit bureau would often side with the creditor and nothing would change about the way the debt was reported.