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Other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Licenses and Disclosures. Advertiser Disclosure. By Jennifer White. Dear Experian, How do I go about getting old, closed-in-good-standing credit card accounts off my credit report? Dear GRB, While open accounts play the most important role in your credit scores, closed accounts are part of your credit history.
Closed, Positive Accounts Remain on Your Credit Report Experian credit reports include closed accounts with no negative information for 10 years from the date they are reported closed. However, there are also some general things that anyone can do to help improve their credit scores: Bring any past-due accounts current.
If you have any accounts that are currently past due, including collection accounts or charge-offs, bringing those accounts current is the first step to getting your credit back on track. Keep your credit card balances as low as possible. You may want to consider speaking with the credit card company with whom you have an account to learn more about its policies on account inactivity.
Not necessarily. In addition, if a credit card is closed due to inactivity, you may lose card benefits or accumulated rewards. Even if you paid the account as agreed, it can remain on your reports for up to 10 years.
If your card has been canceled but you want to keep it, you can contact the credit card company about the cancellation. Some lenders will reinstate the account, although you may be subject to a credit check. You can also create a myEquifax account to get six free Equifax credit reports each year.
A VantageScore is one of many types of credit scores. To keep a credit card active, you may want to consider using it — responsibly — every few months, if only for small purchases. Depending on the age and status of the account, it may be nearing the credit-reporting time limit for when it will drop off your credit report for good.
If that's the case, all you might have to do is wait a few months for the account to fall off your credit report, and then for your credit report to update.
Most negative information can only be listed on your credit report for seven years from the first date of deliquency. If the closed account includes negative information that's older than seven years, you can use the credit report dispute process to remove the account from your credit report. No law requires credit bureaus to remove a closed account that's accurately reported and verifiable and doesn't contain any old, negative information.
Instead, the account will likely remain on your credit report for ten years or whatever time period the credit bureau has set for reporting closed accounts. Don't worry—these types of accounts typically don't hurt your credit score as long as they have a zero balance. A pay-for-delete letter is when you offer to settle a balance on a negative account in exchange for the debt being deleted from your credit report. The creditor or debt collector is not obligated to agree to your request, but it may be worth sending the request.
If you're sending the request to a collection agency, you'll need to offer enough for it to be profitable for them to settle.
There's no way to know how much that is, though. If you're close to the seven-year mark for the item to fall off your credit report, it may not be worth sending a pay-for-delete letter.
To dispute an item on your credit report, you'll need to contact each credit bureau and file a dispute. You can file your dispute online, which is typically the fastest option. If you have supporting documentation, you can upload that, as well. You can also make a dispute by mail; be sure to use certified mail if you do.
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