Consumer complaint received 2018-04-12
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TX
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Sub-issue: Account information incorrect

Complaint:
To whom it may concern, I writing this letter to dispute the inaccurate reporting on my credit report from XXXX XXXX XXXX ( XXXX XXXX ). According to my report # XXXX from XXXX, pages 9-15 ( see attached ), there are consistent updates indicating that my account was in an ok status ( as in paid ) between the years of XX/XX/XXXXthrough XX/XX/XXXX always around the same time of year, between XX/XX/XXXX and the beginning of the following year. The items are also on my Equifax bureau reported the exact same way. These items have already been updated and dropped from my XXXX  bureau. 

The reason this creates a challenge for me, is because XX/XX/XXXX I was diagnosed with a XXXX XXXX condition called XXXX and less than one year later XX/XX/XXXX, I woke up XXXX in my XXXX XXXX because my XXXX XXXX  overnight. Two weeks later, the same thing happen to my XXXX XXXX, woke to a XXXX XXXX. About a month or so later, I was diagnosed as legally XXXX and XXXX. At the time I went XXXX, I was enrolled in school and had to drop out due to my condition. In XX/XX/XXXX, I had my first XXXX XXXX  XXXX and the second one in XX/XX/XXXX. During these years my family suffered a great hardship due to the lack of income as you can probably imagine and I was unable to make payments on my loans during that time. I currently still have XXXX in my XXXX and will continue to take XXXX and XXXX  XXXX in my XXXX for the rest of my life. 

So, its hard for me to imagine where I would have came up with the money to make one small payment on one loan, let along 12 payments across all the loans spread out every year near or around the exact same time, for a span 2 to 4 months, consistently. Considering I wasn't cleared to return to work until the beginning of XX/XX/XXXX and didn't actually find a job until XX/XX/XXXX. 

I understand the law says if you have an account in collections, it will usually remain on your credit report for seven years plus 180 days from the date the account first became past due and never was brought current. However, this reporting appears to be an abuse of this very law. By this being reported as current at times when there was no way I could even pay, this will end up on my credit for another 4 years and at that time, this will have been on my credit for more than 10 years. This appears to be deliberate attempt to extend or reset the seven year plus 180 days rule for automatic removal from my credit, which in turns hurts me and my family even longer after going through a critical 5 year span in this decade already. 

I have gone through student loan consolidation, Im currently out of default and making normal payments on time. My wife and I have XXXX kids in college now and these closed collection accounts are negatively impacting my credit scores, thus prohibiting us from recovering and moving on with our life, supporting our children through college and qualifying for a mortgage. These items are reported are absolutely false and need to be removed.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation