Nov
26
Bankruptcy and Clearing up Your Credit
Filed Under Bankruptcy
There are ways to repair your credit after a bankruptcy. Although these procedures will not help right away, they can be used to help repair your credit over time. Taking the needed steps to eliminate the bankruptcy record from your report or to improve your credit after a bankruptcy can place you on the right road to prepare your credit report and score for the future.
How could you remove a bankruptcy and increase your FICO score?
Any derogatory accounts that were discharged during bankruptcy will show up as either “BK Liq Reo” or “Charge-off.” The bankruptcy will itself appear under the public record section as a Ch. 7 or Ch. 13.
There is really just one way to erase a bankruptcy completely from your credit file and that is to deal with the credit bureaus directly. There is almost always some kind of mistake in the bankruptcy record since it was written by a human.
One of the major possible difficulties you can dispute in a bankruptcy is the dollar amount of each account in question. Many times creditors will round up the account balance number to the nearest dollar for accounting purposes. This can be challenged since the number is technically not correct. In many cases, the bankruptcy is ordered removed.
Often, bankruptcies are easier to remove than other listings on your credit file. This is because bankruptcy files have a plethora of information, so the probability of errors is extremely high as items are often entered by busy or overworked court employees.
Working with a government office is much different from working with private subscribers. Getting the government to cooperate will make it difficult for the credit bureau to respond to your dispute letter within the chosen time, and the government’s bureaucracy can work in your favor.
Remember to send your demand for correction directly to the three major credit bureaus, not to the court that holds the bankruptcy file. The bureaus must correct any inaccuracy within a reasonable period or remove it from your credit record. It is very easy to find some kind of mistake in a bankruptcy file. Use this to your advantage.
A bankruptcy is not the end of the rope for your credit, and often it is much simpler to erase a bankruptcy record then it would be to erase a lot of small diverse debts listed on your credit reports. Look over the bankruptcy records completely, find something incorrect, and file a dispute to have it erased from your report, so you can begin building your credit file again.
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