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No. If you have an old deliquency on your credit history and you now decide to pay it, all you're doing is refreshing an old debt on your credit history. Ex. If you owe a credit card 400 bucks from let's say, 2000, and you pay it now, creditors will see that it took over six years for you to pay it and it will remain in negative status on your history. Remember that after seven years your credit gets a clean start again, so might as well let it run for 7 years. Leslie

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