Consumer complaint received 2019-01-24
Company: TRANSUNION INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS, INC.
State: FL
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Sub-issue: Account status incorrect

Complaint:
XXXX is falsely reporting a paid off account 's status as currently in collections/charged off/referred to collections when the actual current status is paid. 

The current payment status for Closed and Paid account # XXXX was being erroneously reported as 120+ days late with TransUnion and XXXX so I disputed it since the account was paid in 2016. In response, XXXX recently maliciously changed that 120+ late status on the paid account to currently a BAD DEBT IN COLLECTION/CHARGED OFF to get my much better credit score to immediately drop from the supposed " new delinquency '' when it should reported as PAID/SETTLED. 

XXXX is attempting to keep the false Current Payment Status on my credit reports as negative as possible while placing the actual current status that it was paid /settled collection way down on the report as a comment/note/remarks section instead of correcting the Current Payment Status to PAID/SETTLED FOR LESS THAN BALANCE. Accurate reporting is required under the Fair Credit Reporting Act 5 U.S.C. 1681 and that means a certain level of above board transparency about what the current status of the account is. No money is due or has been due for 2 1/2 years now and never will be again, yet they are pretending that the current status of the account field is for stating what had happened with the account instead of its actual current disposition. This is illegal. 

Instead, XXXX continues to reporting the CURRENT PAYMENT STATUS as a CURRENT BAD DEBT REFERRED TO COLLECTION, IN COLLECTION/CHARGEOFF or as CURRENTLY 120+ DAYS LATE, which is inaccurate and in contravention of the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act 5 U.S.C. 1681. The account is not currently a bad debt, in collections or referred to any agency because it was settled and paid. This error needs to be corrected immediately. 

I am requesting that this item be either deleted or adjusted to accurately reflect that the CURRENT PAYMENT STATUS is PAID or SETTLED in order to adequately reflect my true credit history and final disposition on the affected TransUnion and XXXX reports. 

Both of our records ( mine and XXXX 's ) reflect that this account was PAID/SETTLED in 2016 and that the title of the vehicle was released to me free and clear. The vehicle was later sold with a clean title and I have records of the bill of sale. 


***Documents Attached*** - Not for Posting Examples from credit reports of how XXXX is falsely reporting my paid account # XXXX on my credit reports. 

On TransUnion, XXXX changed the false report of it being currently 120+ days late to a Current Payment Status of " in collections/charge off. '' On XXXX, XXXX reported the Current Status as a current Charge Off/Referred to Collections making it appear new

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation