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Charge-off now reported as late payment - please explain!

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doredeb
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Charge-off now reported as late payment - please explain!

Question...

I have an old medical collection collection on my EXP report; it's from 2014 and has been reporting all this time as a charge-off.  I've never received full details of the account from the CA and have disputed it with EXP a couple times but it comes back as "updated" and has remained on my report.  I question the collection in the first place, but I'm tired of fighting it.  Honestly, I just decided to let it age off as it's not hurting my scores so badly that I want to go extreme efforts to fight the CA and get it off at this point. 

 

This morning I received an alert from EXP that my score had decreased (-23 points!) and I saw that the CA has now reported the collection account as a late payment (not a charge-off).  I've never made a single payment on this collection account, nor was any agreement reached that I would do so.  Is this legal? Can a collection agency change their reporting on an account once it's charged off?  The charge-off wasn't causing my score to decrease, but the late payment report is - and I don't understand how they can report it that way after all this time.

 

Can someone provide some insight - and/or suggest what I can do?

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FireMedic1
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Re: Charge-off now reported as late payment - please explain!

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FireMedic1
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