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NOT PAY FOR DELETE! Why Chat's HIPAA dispute method. May require repayment.
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lost job, have equity, and crazy credit card debt...now what?
theGman posted a topic in Credit Forum,
Hello
I have about 140k in credit card debt which turned to 20+ interest after a couple of years of zero credit.
Another 45k in student debt
FICO 2 is 732. Credit Karma etc are about 600 due to high debt. No derogs. All clean - long history - good mix of credit.
Have not paid uncle sam on my 1099 this year. About 19k.
Now the contract is over. I get to choose between credit card bills and food.
- Do I call the credit card companies and tell them?
- Do I cut all the payments to credit card companies as they are due around the 10th of the month?
Am trying desperately to get a home equity loan to pay it all off. I have a good amount of equity and can pay off that loan through gig economy jobs (lyft, uber) until I get a new contract. it is even possible that I will get this contract back two weeks from now when the dust settles.
please advise. am in bind.
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Transworld Systems ignoring VOD letter
Borderbound posted a topic in Credit Forum,
Hello, I am helping my daughter who has received collections notices from two (2) separate agencies for the same alleged debt. One was from TRS Recovery Services in early 2019, and the most recent was Transworld Systems. When she received the initial 2019 letter from TRS, she contacted her bank (this was supposedly for a returned check at Walmart, and their notice listed Telecheck Services as the 'current creditor'). The bank had no record of any such transaction.
In January 2020, she received a collection letter from Transworld Systems for the same alleged debt. In this letter, they also claim that Telecheck Services is the creditor. The amount of the alleged debt is the same in letters from TRS and Transworld.
A certified letter was sent to Transworld listing the Transworld Systems account number, and the alleged creditor account number. This letter requested a Verification of Debt as prescribed in 15 U.S. Code § 1692g and demanded that all information related to this matter, their ability to collect, and the original creditor information, be sent.
We received the Return Receipt (letter was received by Transworld 10-days ago).
Today, we received a second letter from Transworld with a NEW account number (for Transworld). There is also a new account number tied to Telecheck Services, but the alleged debt amount is exactly the same.
This letter was dated 4-days after they signed for our certified letter, so they are ignoring our demand for a Verification of Debt.
My question is, what is the best way to address this issue. They are clearly attempting to extort money since the debt is nonexistent, and are not complying with the FDCPA requirements.
I look forward to feedback.
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Alaska Credit Unions
tmcgill posted a topic in Chexsystems Help,
Lots of updates and new information to vet. 🥴
I'll post the state by state list before merging into a single PDF for credit unions, with bookmarks for each state.
Post any updates, comments or related info about AL CUs.
**The final PDF will refer individuals to the CU website to verify membership requirements.
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New and Looking Med Collection Removal Clarification
Ken1720 posted a topic in Medical Billing & Medical Collections,
I'm and 27 and still relatively new to this process, there's no much to learn. I have been trying to build my credit for the last 3 years and it's been a slow-ish process. It was going well until I got sick and my engineering job fired me without notice so my insurance was not invalid.
There is one medical collection that has posted to TransUnion of $308 from Wakefield and Associates. From what I can see on Credit Karma, this collection is not on Equifax.
Experian I can't tell if it is posted there or not. I can see a negative collection from Experience on Discover's Credit Score Card. However, I have an energy bill that was in my name in which half ($53) was unpaid by an old roommate that's still showing 3 years later though it has been paid off since 12/9/16, so it may be that showing as delinquent/collection on Experian. It doesn't show the itemized adverse account list on that platform.
I only requested my annual credit reports for TransUnion and Equifax to have one more to pull if needed during the year. I believe I intended to pull Experian but got mixed up since I had issues with receving them online and had to do by mail.
I also just received the second and last medical collection of $568 in the mail from Account Resolution Services. This hasn't posted to of the CAs yet from what I can tell.
I'm attempting to use the HiPPA process for the $308 dollar collection. But when I went to put in the account number, which is what I did not have from Credit Karma, the CR is still showing the same account number format of 111111**** and I'm assuming that is not a valid account number to place on the dispute form. So now I'm confused.
Can someone please assist me? I'm confused and feel as though I'm missing some vital pieces of information to understanding and executing this correctly since I've been reviewing this process for months and the picture is still not as clear as I would like it to be.
Above all,
Thank you for time!-
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Are there banks like this around or am I being unrealistic?
wisconsinborn56 posted a topic in Chexsystems Help,
Hello all! I have a few very specific questions about Chex, Tele and EWS. I'm interested in opening a bank account that fits the criteria below. I'm hoping someone knows the answers. Here is a bit of applicable information that will help you answer my questions. I have nothing negative in my past as far as EWS/Chex/Tele. However, I have really bad credit. I currently reside in Florida.
1. I know when your credit report/Chexs/EWS report is pulled by a specific bank; it leaves a record of that in the form of a hard or soft inquiry for 2 years for credit reports and 5 years for Chex/EWS.
Meaning anyone who gets a hold of that report afterwords knows from the "inquiry history" which bank ran a check on me. Does Telecheck have an "inquiry history" on their report as well? I could not find any information online on that.
If the answer is no then I'm ok with opening an account with a bank that does only a Telecheck. But I also wanted to know just in case......I looked at the "pinned threads" which lists which institution runs which check. However, there no information on accepting out of state/area residents. So my question is the following:
2. Are there any banks/CU's outside my state (FL) that will accept FL residents who also do not run any checks (Tele/Chex/EWS/credit report)? I'm ok with online only banks as well in case anyone knows of one that fits my criteria. I'm ok with them verifying my identity using my SS card/DL/passport etc. but I dont want to be ran in the systems mentioned above.
3. Also, I looked at the pinned threads with a list of banks by state. I noticed that a lot of them say sometime along the lines of "they offer second chance checking" but doesn't specify any checks the bank/CU runs. Are these institutions ones that don't run any check if you open a 2nd chance checking or is the information not listed because its not known.
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By RehabbingANDBlabbing · Posted
Another piece of good news today,. I was approved for a $1,000 CLI today on my Discovery card! This increase has been a long time in the works, because it has not been increased since 11/2018 when my secured Discover It card graduated. At that time the secured credit line was $700 and they gave me a CLI to $2,000. I had been getting denied for CLIs since then. For about a year, they kept saying "insufficient experience at current credit line" as the denial reason. In about 10/2019, they started saying I was denied for "high utilization on revolving bankcards". Since then, I have increased my FICO score from 640 to 716 and gotten my utilization down to 3%. I have also been paying Discover in full every month and have spent around $36k on the card since I opened it. It was my daily driver until recently when I opened the Alliant Rewards Platinum Visa, which offers 2% cash back on everything. Anyway, my point is that high utilization and paying in full did not matter for the CLI; they only approved it after I cleaned up my TU credit report and got my overall utilization to optimal levels. This was one of my major goals for this year. Also of note, they only approved me for $300 via the online request tool. I then called in for the "double dip" and asked for more after explaining my high spend on the card and that it had been paid in full every month since it was opened. The rep approved the CLI for $1k and thanked me for my loyalty to Discover. So Miss Disco can be pretty stingy, but my case for the CLI was iron clad in this circumstance, especially after waiting nearly a year and a half. -
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By Sidewinder · Posted
From the news it looks like New Orleans has been throwing some sort of celebration in honor of me getting approved for the BofA Cash Rewards MasterCard. It's quite a few years now since I got that Bank of America Platinum Plus Visa (is what it was called six or seven years ago anyway), and BofA now becomes the first issuer with whom I have both types of cards. It looks like it's unusual for consumer banks to issue on both networks; all of Fifth Third's, BMO Harris's, and Key Bank's credit cards are MasterCards, all of PNC's are Visae. Barclays and Citi kinda issue both but it's "kinda" because a lot of them are affinity cards and affinity cards are completely ridiculous. But, issuing options change, so some of you might have cards that are no longer being newly issued. Are there any banks with whom you have one or more card of each type, Visa & MC?
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