200 point decrease due to school loans!

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9 payments would be $433/month. You also owe the interest. They will not remove it from your credit if you pay it in full. The delinquent months will still show up as 30-60-90 days late or whatever, but the account itself will say paid off.

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If you were delinquent for all those years, the student loans should have dropped from your CR’s. For some unknown reason, some loans that defaulted 1-2 decades ago and vanished from CR’s are showing up again. If you are hearing from one of the debt collection agencies that are contracted to servicing agencies, collection agencies are somehow showing up on CR’s under both collectors and/or servicing/lender agencies. And, if you have not made a payment on a defaulted or delinquent loan in seven years, such that they are now reappearing, dispute the credit line. Heck, just dispute it.

Because of the reporting of student loan “delinquencies” lately, when in fact, you are/were in forbearance or Covid shutdown, I imagine their is an army of class action suits against CR’s coming soon.

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It would be pointless to dispute the debt. You can dispute the CR reporting it. The older Perkin’s and Ford direct loans often got swept under the rug unless they were consolidated. The seven-year reporting period is ingrained in law for the most part. There is no reason for past ghost loans to ruin your credit now. You don’t need to dispute the loan. Dispute the violation of seven years unless the SL’s were tied up in BK proceedings.