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With three accounts in collections can you raise your FICO score quicker by paying them off in full one by one or by making payments on all of them?
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∙ 18y ago
Paying off collection accounts in no way improves your credit and may, under certain circumstances, HARM it by lowering your scores. Once an account goes into default, it is a derogatory mark against your credit. The derogatory nature, PLUS the "date last reported" combine to cause deductions to the score, even if the account has been paid off. If the date last reported falls within the past 12 months, the deduction can be huge. In the simpliest terms, a credit report is a history of how you have managed debt in the past. So, obviously, the recent past (last 12 months) has the most impact on your scores. Any derogatory mark falling within that time frame is a "score killer". This is the reason that paying off old collection accounts don't help your credit. They often cause the account to (confusingly) appear to be more recent. The only true way to improve your credit is to pay a collection account in exchange for its' REMOVAL from your credit. Unfortunately, this is not easily accomplished. However it is still worth the effort because that is the only way to actually improve your credit by paying defaulted debts.
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If you pay on your medical bills can they turn you over to collections?
Not if you are making your payments.
Can a credit card come send you to collections if you are making a payment?
They can do whatever they want if you are behind, but it would be weird for them to pursue collections if you are making REGULAR payments. Call the credit card company and make arrangements.
What can one do with an accounts payable clerk?
An accounts payable clerk is a position where one works in a specific division of an accounting department. An accounts payable clerk is the one that is responsible for making payments on behalf of the company one works for in order for payments to be made on time.
Can you be sent to collections if you make a payment every month?
You should not be sent to collections if you are making monthly payments. Some companies have their own "polocies" on how much your payment needs to be in order to keep from collections but the law says that you can pay what ever you want as long as you don't sign a payment contract.
What is stretching account payable?
Stretching accounts payable has to do with making payments. When a company makes the payment after the due date, yet only pays what is due, not any penalties. This is stretching accounts payable.
Can an account be sent to collections if you are making monthly payments?
Yes, an account can still be sent to collections even if you are making monthly payments. If the payments are not meeting the agreed terms or if the creditor believes the account is at risk of defaulting, they may send it to collections to recover the debt. It's important to communicate with your creditor and try to negotiate a manageable payment plan to avoid the account being sent to collections.
What decreases accounts payable?
Making payments to the people to whom you owe money. Or perhaps, you've had a debt forgiven for some reason, this would also reduce the accounts payable (not too likely that this will happen though)
What services does G Online offer?
The G Online service offers vary from a users point of view. It could range from making online payments to making money transfers between various accounts.
Does paying off collection balances in full or making consistent payments raise your FICO score quicker?
Consistent payments will raise your FICO faster than payoffs. Banks don't like it when you pay off the ballances in full because they are not making any money when you do that. Folks that pay off their credit cards every month are essentially getting a free 30-day float, which does not help their FICO as much as maintaining a balance and making payments on it. The previous answer applies to making payments on a positive, revolving, account like a credit card. It is not a good answer the question posed, namely: Does paying off a collection account or making payments raise your score quicker? Paying off derogatory accounts does nothing to improve your credit score and can, under certain circumstances, lower your score. The reason this happens is that paying off a defaulted account updates the account to NOW. The NOW causes the scoring software to calculate the account as a default that just occurred, instead of something you are trying to "clean up". This hits the score in the History category, which accounts for up to 35% of the total. Once any account goes into default, the entire balance is due and payable in full. If a creditor chooses to take payments, they do so at their own discretion. Payments at this point does nothing to improve the situation, except make the outlay of funds easier to bear. So, neither action improves your score. If you want to raise your credit score, you need to look to other activities.
Payments of accounts payable will have what affect on total assets?
Making a payment on an account payable will decrease cash. At the same time it will also decrease your liability for that same amount.
I'm making monthly medical payments can they still send me to collections?
YES! Unfortunate, but true. If the company has had your file for the max time, even if you are making payments, they can still send it to collections. I know this from several past experiences. I would tell them that I will pay $5 a month and you have to take it. Yes, they have to accept the money, but if the payment plan isn't good enough for them they will send your records to a collectionsl PLEASE NOTE, this may vary from state to state, so don't take this as a for sure, but I know of several states that do this.
What option do you have if the person you co-sign for stop making payment?
If you co-signed on a debt, you are not obligated. If that person stops making payments, you have no option other than to make the payments yourself. If you do not, you would be responsible for the debt. It will probably be sent to collections, which will destroy your credit, and eventually will probably lead to a lawsuit, so you're going to pay it one way or the other.
