Consumer complaint received 2018-03-25
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TN
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: Investigation took more than 30 days

Complaint:
This is in reference to my joint account with my husband with XXXX XXXX. They are always months late reporting to the credit bureaus. Normally it takes them 3 or 4 months to report. I noticed the end of XX/XX/XXXX that they had not reported any information since XX/XX/XXXXon my credit report. We were looking into purchasing a home and needed it to accurately report. I filed a dispute wanting them to update the account. The account was updated but updated incorrectly with a 60 day late for the month of XX/XX/XXXX. I was not late in XX/XX/XXXXand have the payment information to prove it. I disputed it again on all credit bureaus as not being late. I also called XXXX XXXX  who stated that my payments were on time and that I was in deferment in XX/XX/XXXXand XX/XX/XXXX and those months I only made partial payments and then I was completely on time with payments. She did say that another department would have to correct the late payments and she transferred me to them and then from there I was transferred 3 more times and no one know who I needed to be in contact with. My reports from all 3 credit bureaus show inaccurate information. Then after all of this for the month of XX/XX/XXXXI finally heard something on an update on my account and it was from XXXX  and it showed charged off account updated to be charged off XX/XX/XXXX. I don't have a charged off account. Upon investigating all my credit reports XXXX now has a charge off for Charge off XX/XX/XXXX and then account ok until XX/XX/XXXXwhich showed charge off again and then ok again until charge offXX/XX/XXXX The account has never been charged off. XX/XX/XXXXall 3 credit bureaus were reporting ok and then XXXX and Equifax showed 60 days late. It cant go from ok to 60 days late. Equifax and XXXX show worst delinquency as 90 days which is not reported at this time and XXXX  shows charge off. The balance on my account per the company website shows that I owe XXXX and according to Equifax and XXXX it shows {$7700.00} and XXXX nothing because it is charged off. Ever since I had this account there has been late information reporting, system glitches and problems that I am unable to get fixed. I am hoping that we can just reach some kind of mutual agreement to restore my credit for XX/XX/XXXX-XX/XX/XXXX since that is when the problems with all the inaccurate reporting and misinformation is from. What is later that than that is of no real concern to me. I am just looking for some kind of repair here to restore hope with this company. I have attempted every thing that I know and I just keep making the matters worse instead of better. I am not late and have not been late and maybe if I hadn't of just wanted the reports to update and left it along I would be in better shape now. The sad part is this is not only damaging one person 's credit but two people with the information.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation