How to Dispute TransUnion
Posted on | November 22, 2008 |
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To dispute an item on your TransUnion credit report you must use the dispute process. This is done by creating and mailing a dispute letter or hiring a service to dispute items on your credit report on your behalf.
You should know that you must file a dispute separately with each credit bureau. Failure to do this and you may remove an item from your TransUnion report, however that item will still be shown on your Experian and Equifax reports.
You need to identify the item you are disputing and provide a reason as to why the item is inaccurate in your dispute letter. Reasons will include; not my account, information is wrong, account paid in full, item out of date and more.
Upon receipt of your letter TransUnion will conduct an investigation. They will contact the creditor and ask them to verify the account, the dates, and the balance.
If the lender is unable to verify the account then the item must be erased from your credit report. Often an investigation will result in the removal of a bad credit item.
If your account is verified by the lender then if you have a service this can be very beneficial. A service is able to use advanced dispute techniques to remove items. These techniques are; escalated dispute information requests, creditor direct intervention, and debt validation.
Many people are concerned with credit repair being legal or not. Credit repair is in fact legal the Fair Credit Reporting Act that Congress passed gives the consumer the right to dispute any item on their credit report that they feel is inaccurate.
We recommend saving all your communications with TransUnion. Also the credit bureaus have started allowing people to dispute items online, we have found this to be an ineffective way of disputing items on your credit.
Also there is a 100 word statement that you can put on your credit report next to a derogatory item. In the past this was a place where you could provide an explanation as to why the account became delinquent.
Today it is very rarely looked at by lenders and is more often used by the bureaus. The bureaus see this as an admission of guilt and will ignore any letters you send to dispute and remove this item; your letters will be deemed frivolous.
In sum to dispute an item with TransUnion you must create a dispute letter or have a service do it on your behalf. You do not have to just live with blemishes on your credit report they can be removed before seven years ticks away.
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