Did Verizon Wireless Collections get it wrong? Learn about your legal rights…
Federal law protects you from a collections department reporting inaccurate or unsupported items on your credit report.
If a company like Verizon Wireless becomes aware that they reported incorrect information to a credit bureau (like Experian, Equifax, or TransUnion) they must inform the credit bureau.
If you think that the Verizon Wireless Collections Department should remove a negative item from your credit report, read on to learn how to request it.
Under federal regulations, you can dispute your credit report directly with Verizon Wireless. To submit the dispute, send a letter containing your identifying information (account numbers are best), a description of the dispute, and any supporting evidence to the Verizon Wireless Collections Department at the address they provide on your credit report (if any), or the notice address provided in your Verizon Wireless contract.
Send your letter by certified mail so you can prove that Verizon Wireless received it. In most cases, a company like Verizon Wireless has 30 days from receiving your letter to finish a reasonable investigation and send you the results. If they agree that you’re right, then they have to notify the credit bureaus (like Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion) to delete the information!
If you don’t trust Verizon Wireless to fix your issue on their own, don’t worry. You aren’t the only one. Thankfully, federal law also requires the credit bureaus to investigate information reported as inaccurate. The credit bureaus will investigate your Verizon Wireless Collections Dispute by reporting it to the original company, so reporting to the Verizon Wireless Collections Department and the credit bureaus will increase your odds of getting results.
To report your Verizon Wireless Collections dispute to the credit bureaus, use the following links: Transunion customer service click here, Experian customer service dispute click here, and Equifax customer service dispute click here. In most cases, the credit bureaus are responsible for sending you an outcome of their investigation within 30 days of your submission.
If Verizon’s collections department and the credit bureaus refuse to correct the issue, you can continue to dispute the issue by filing a consumer arbitration against Verizon Wireless and contesting the negative information in a hearing.
If you do not receive the result of a Verizon Wireless Collections Department investigation within 30 days of informing the company, you may be entitled to up to $1000 in damages under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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