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It's always good to take responsibility for your debts. There are benefits that come from this. Paying defaulted accounts does nothing to improve your credit and can, under certain circumstances, lower your score. However, lenders like to see that consumers have paid former debts. This may help you should you need to borrow money again in the future. Charged off debts may appear on your credit report for 7 years from the month/year you last paid the account on time immediately prior to its' default. Nothing legally changes this reporting period, even paying them off.

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