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Hi Everyone,
I'm looking for some general information or links to other threads regarding the difference between an "Early Exclusion" and disputing something on your credit report?
For some context, I've started taking care of my credit and am beginning to build more with my cards but am consistently hitting low starting limits on new cards despite decent scores and income
Curious as to why my starting limits were so low when I have decent scores and good income I pulled my Experian report
TU 701
EQ 711
EX 705
@Anonymous
Early Exclusion is 6 months early for Transunion and 3 months early for Experian and this is off the 7 year regulation time to leave negative things on report. Doesn't seem like you are eligible for Early Exclusion as your instance is only 3 years old. Also decent income is not an income level. You have a lot of debt so that might be involved as well.
I am not suprised with your Amex starting credit limit as I have similar Experian score to you and close to 200k in income and zero debt and I started out at 1k on both my Amex Credit Cards.
"Credit report exclusion" is a statutory requirement that any adverse item of information contained in a consumer's credit file with a CRA has a time limit after which the CRA must exclude the information from normal credit reports they issue. The intent of congress was to provide the ability of consumers to recover from prior credit problems after a reasonable period, which is normally set at approx. 7 years.
Each adverse item of information in a consumer's credit file has a defined exclusion period that is clearly specified in FCRA 605(a).
Credit report exclusion does NOT remove (delete) the information from the consumer's credit file. It prevents the CRA from continuing to include the adverse item in normal credit reports they issue, and is a "shield" against others obtaining knowledge of the item by simply pulling a consumer's credit report.
I say "normal" credit reports in that the exclusion is not absolute.
Section 605(b) defines specific circumstances in which none of the exclusion provisions apply, and thus a party can still receive a complete ("full factual") credit report that includes any and all normally excluded information. The most common full factual credit report applies to any consumer-initiated request for credit or insurance with a principal amount of $150,000 or more.
Disputes are a process under the FCRA wherein a consumer can challenge the accuracy of information in their credit file.
The consumer must clearly identify the information, and provide a showing of how/why the reporting is considered inaccurate.
In disputes filed with a CRA, the dispute is referred to the furnisher of the information, who must conduct a reasonable investigation and respond back to the CRA, either verifying the accuracy as reported, correcting so as to overcome the asserted inaccuracy, or stating that they cannot verify.
If the information is not either verified or corrected so as to overcome the asserted inaccuracy, the CRA is then required to delete the disputed information. Deletion is removal from the consumer's credit file, and thus no subsequent credit report can contain that deleted information, period, unless it later becomes reinserted.
In view of the above, if a consumer is requesting that a CRA exclude information earlier than its required exclusion period under FCRA 605(a), the consumer is requesting a favor from the CRA, and is not contesting the accuracy of the reported information.
Thus, a request for early exclusion is not a dispute.
At least one CRA will often request or implement a dispute in order to determine if they will grant an early exclusion, but technically that is an incorrect process, as there is no inaccuracy upon which to base an actual dispute.
Will a charge off (Capital One) be deleted 7 years after DOFD, even if I paid it in full a year after charging off?
@Anonymous wrote:
... I've identified that this is due to an old card that was closed-charged off in 2015 and I immediately paid it off - a family member was using it and I got burned ...
Sounds like you should be researching "Goodwill Letter" instead. It's not a dispute because you admit it's validity & it's much too early for an EE. Good luck.
^ Yes
@Sadie5150 wrote:Will a charge off (Capital One) be deleted 7 years after DOFD, even if I paid it in full a year after charging off?
Yes
@RobertEG wrote:
I say "normal" credit reports in that the exclusion is not absolute.
Section 605(b) defines specific circumstances in which none of the exclusion provisions apply, and thus a party can still receive a complete ("full factual") credit report that includes any and all normally excluded information. The most common full factual credit report applies to any consumer-initiated request for credit or insurance with a principal amount of $150,000 or more.
I hate to veer this post off-topic, but do Equifax, Experian, and Transunion provide these reports? Wouldn't we have the same rights to view these reports and dispute any inaccurate information?
My conslusion is that while the law allows for it the major credit reporting agencies don't currently offer such a report.
All the CRAs are required under sectin 605(b) to provide such reports if the requestor includes in their request a showing that the report is being requested with respect to any of the situations set forth in FCRA 605(b), such as with respect to consideration of a consumer-initiated request for credit or insurance having a principal amount of $150K or more.
If the creditor then denies credit based on the credit report, that is an adverse action under FCRA 615, and entitles the consumer to then send a copy of the denial letter to the CRA within 60 days and receive a free copy of the credit report provided to the creditor.
Upon what are you basing the statement that the CRAs dont have to comply with those provisions of the FCRA?