Unless you have given a collection agency written permission to pull a full credit report they are in violation of credit laws.
No the collection will not be removed from the credit report. They will show it paid in full.
File a dispute with the credit reporting agency.
A collection agency can report you to the credit bureau for any amount of money. There are agencies that will report for amounts under a hundred dollars.
Yep! If the ambulance company turns your account over to a collection agency that agency might report the collection on your credit. Medical collections are the most common type of collection on a credit report.
It wount be a collection aggency. But the city can put a judgment on your credit report that will effect your credit score.
Only the credit bureaus the collection agency can remove a collection from your credit report. The collection agency won't do it now since it is paid and they have no reason to. You can dispute it to the credit bureaus and ask for verification on the account. They will have 30 days to verify the items or it must be removed from your credit report.
The original account with a normal credit company went to a third party collection agency. Only after it went to the collection agency was the debt paid and then the account closed.
no.
Yes the second collection will be placed on the credit report. But they will remove the first collection agency off the report. In some states it is against the law to be double billed by two collection agency for the same debt.
Contact the credit reporting agency from where you got the report. They have the contact information and can provide that to you upon request.
if a collection agency isn't paid, the debt can be put on a persons credit report. The collection agency can also choose to garnish a persons paycheck.
The collection agency typically does not report to the credit bureaus, the original lender does. Lenders report to the bureaus, collection agencies collect on delinquent debt.