Consumer complaint received 2018-11-14
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TX
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem
Sub-issue: Their investigation did not fix an error on your report

Complaint:
On XX/XX/2018 I sent letters of dispute under section 623 of the  FCRA to the companies listed below. The companies had previously " verified '' the validity of these accounts to the credit reporting agencies, and the items remained on my credit report. Section 623 gives consumers the right to dispute inaccurate information on their credit reports directly to the data furnishers, after disputing directly with the credit reporting agencies. All of the companies listed below did not respond to my disputes within the allotted 30 day period per the law. The accounts must now be deleted per the FCRA. As a refresher section 623 of the FCRA states in part the following : " DUTY OF PERSON AFTER RECEIVING NOTICE OF DISPUTE- After receiving a notice of dispute from a consumer pursuant to subparagraph ( D ), the person that provided the information in dispute to a consumer reporting agency shall -- ( i ) conduct an investigation with respect to the disputed information ; ( ii ) review all relevant information provided by the consumer with the notice ; ( iii ) complete such person 's investigation of the dispute and report the results of the investigation to the consumer before the expiration of the period under section 611 ( a ) ( 1 )  within which a consumer reporting agency would be required to complete its action if the consumer had elected to dispute the information under that section ; and ( iv ) if the investigation finds that the information reported was inaccurate, promptly notify each consumer reporting agency to which the person furnished the inaccurate information of that determination and provide to the agency any correction to that information that is necessary to make the information provided by the person accurate. '' It goes on to say " ( b ) Duties of furnishers of information upon notice of dispute.

( 1 ) In general. After receiving notice pursuant to section 611 ( a ) ( 2 ) [ 1681i ] of a dispute with regard to the completeness or accuracy of any information provided by a person to a consumer reporting agency, the person shall ( A ) conduct an investigation with respect to the disputed information ; ( B ) review all relevant information provided by the consumer reporting agency pursuant to section 611 ( a ) ( 2 ) [ 1681i ] ; ( C ) report  the results of the investigation to the consumer reporting agency ; ( D ) if the investigation finds that the information is incomplete or inaccurate, report those results to all other consumer reporting agencies to which the person furnished the information and that compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis ; and '' The companies below have failed to follow the law as written. If these accounts are not deleted I will be forced to seek legal remedy under the FCRA. 

The companies in question are the following : XXXX XXXX : Partial Account # XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX : Partial Account # XXXX XXXX XXXX : Partial Account # XXXX Attachments : Letters sent to each company Tracking information Proof of signature from each company

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation