The usual procedure is to contact the creditor by phone, and follow up the phone contact with written correspondence outlining the terms that were agreed upon. You can find a sample letter of that type of creditor/debtor correspondence at http://www.fair-debt-collection-com
No, a credit card company will not reopen a charged off account. They may choose to grant you a new line of credit, but this would be rare.
Account receivables
The term for the interest charged by a credit card company or the business that maintains a charge account is called the "annual percentage rate" (APR). This rate represents the cost of borrowing on the account, expressed as a yearly interest rate. It can vary based on the cardholder's creditworthiness and the terms of the account.
Account impounding is an accounting term used to describe an account that is maintained by a mortgage company. This account collects hazard insurance, property taxes, private mortgage insurance, and other required payments.
A liability account is money owed by a company. Such as Accounts Payable and Notes Payable.A transaction that would increase a liability account is if you purchased an item on account. This would increase either the Account Payable or Note Payable accounts.A transaction that would decrease these are actual payments you make to the person/company you owe, hence lowering the balance of how much is owed.For example, I purchase a truck costing $15,000, that transaction has increased my liability in notes payable. Once I begin making payments on that truck, each of those payments will decrease the liability.
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No, a credit card company will not reopen a charged off account. They may choose to grant you a new line of credit, but this would be rare.
Account receivables
No, what usaully takes place is that the credit card company freeze your credit card account and you continue to make payments
Yes, interest and fees are still charged when an account is sent to collections or purchased by a third pary collector.
If you use a work email account, your correspondence is legally the property of that company.
It depends. If:you have a monthly loan repayment agreement with the company wherein the company automatically deducts your monthly payments from your savings account oryou have defaulted on your loan payments for more than 2 or 3 months and haven't contacted the company reg. the sameThen, the company can withdraw money from your account (if there is any cash available) towards your loan repayment. Otherwise the company cannot deduct any money from your account without intimating you.
they can if it contains a balance. if they charged it off and gave you a zero balance and a pay off letter then they cannot. If they closed the account and reduced the amount you owe you are still responsible for the payments including late fees and interest.
When often another company buys a credit card company, they have purchased your account. Most often, it is business as usual, and payments are directed to the new owner of the account.
First of all, contact the issuer of the account that the payments are being taken from. You may want to do this by phone and in writing, just to document all correspondence. I would send the request certified, request receipt requested. [If you contacted the company, that is charing your account, did you get the name of the rep? If not, call again to request that the charges be stopped and the account credited for the full amount charged.] When contacting the credit card issuer, dispute the charges, again, in writing. Use the address on the back of a current statement. You should receive a confirmation of the dispute, from the card issuer. If all else fails, contact your State's Attorney General to file a complaint. Another good site to access is FTC.gov. If the company that is charing your account is a bank or 'N.A'., you can also contact the Comptroller of Currency to file a complaint.
A service that a bank provides in which is processes payments for a company. The company directs its customers to send payments to a lockbox at the bank, whose employees then collect the payments and deposit them directly into the company's account. A lockbox reduces time between the receipt and processing of payments, which can be beneficial for the company using the service. On the other hand, it opens the possibility of fraud by bank employees, who could theoretically steal the payments by taking the funds from the payments and not depositing them.
The term for the interest charged by a credit card company or the business that maintains a charge account is called the "annual percentage rate" (APR). This rate represents the cost of borrowing on the account, expressed as a yearly interest rate. It can vary based on the cardholder's creditworthiness and the terms of the account.