Pay for delete letter: Negotiate to remove negative listing

Submitted by Laura on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 06:27
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What is a Pay for delete letter?

A Pay for delete agreement is normally made with the original creditor or a collection agency (CA) to remove an outstanding debt listing from your credit report.

If the name of the creditor or the CA gets listed in your credit report with a particular debt, you should first ask for debt validation by sending a Debt Validation (DV) letter to the creditor. Once your debt gets validated by the creditor, you need to send a Pay for delete letter.

A Pay for delete letter is sent as part of your negotiations with your creditor for a repayment plan to pay off your outstanding debt. If the creditor agrees to a Pay for deletion agreement, the negative listing gets removed from your credit report once the debt has been repaid in full. You should always get the Pay for delete agreement in writing so you have proof that the creditor agreed to delete the negative listing from your report, if they refuse to remove the negative item from your report after you pay off the debt.

Sample Pay for delete letter/Pay for deletion letter

Name of Collection Agency
Address of collection agency

Re: Collection Account for Original Creditor Account Number
Amount: $50.00

Dear Sir or Madam,

This is for your information that I am disputing validity of the debt referred to above. I am not aware of the account number and you have not informed me of the existence of this account.

I am willing to pay this account IN FULL (or a settlement percentage, whichever is feasible) if you agree to immediately delete the account from the credit reporting agencies (namely Equifax, TransUnion and Experian) that you have reported to, and validated this account. My sole purpose is to get this item removed from my file. This letter should not be interpreted as recognition of the debt or acknowledgment of liability for the debt.

If you accept the terms of this agreement, the certified amount of $50 will be sent to your collection agency provided there is complete deletion of any reference to the debt from my file on all the credit bureaus that you have reported to, and the debt is validated. As the full amount demanded will be paid back, there should not be any waiting period to delete this item from the reporting bureaus.

Your agency should delete all information regarding the account from my credit files within 10 business days from the receipt of the payment, as mentioned in this agreement. The terms of this agreement will not be discussed with anyone but the original creditor. No third party will be informed if contacted and no acknowledgment of the debt, any kind of payment, or settlement will be discussed if I am contacted by the Reporting Agencies.

Following the acceptance of the agreement, please prepare a letter on your company letter head unambiguously agreeing to the aforementioned terms and conditions and have it signed by your agency's authorized signatory. This letter will imply a legal contract, enforceable under my state law.

If I do not receive an approval letter within 15 days of your receipt of this letter, I will withdraw this offer.

Please communicate regarding this account to the address mentioned below.

Your Name
Your Address
State Zip Code

mustapha moumdi (not verified)

hi
im ready send a message

Tue, 01/24/2017 - 18:00 Permalink
Roxanne (not verified)

am trying to get a pay to delete settlement but the collection agency say that they cannot delete , they can only report paid in full. Is this true, they can only delete if they reported incorrectly.

Tue, 02/28/2017 - 00:19 Permalink
Eric Guerrero (not verified)

Hi Carol,

Thank you very much for the work you do in helping people getting their Credit Health on track. I personally highly appreciate your articles and looking forward to keeping learning as much as I can from you. I recently read about the Pay for delete Letter and you did mention that before sending that letter, we should send DV letter first. I do not know how a DV letter should look like or what needs to be included in that letter, could you please show us a sample DV letter just the same way you did for the Pay for Delete letter.

Thank you very much,
Eric Guerrero

Fri, 04/28/2017 - 15:30 Permalink
Lawanda (not verified)

Hello Carol, I recently tried this with thr only negative report on my credit. The company did not accept the offer. On my credit report it is listed as a charge off. About two years ago I was had to pay taxes on a charged off debt thst I had settled on to the IRS because the debt was as earned income. Since this company won't settle. How long will I have to wait before it goes to the IRS? My 7 years will be up in early 2019.

Sun, 04/30/2017 - 21:53 Permalink
Michael Bee (not verified)

I have one things that hurting my credit I am be behind
Childsupport 3,000 they are going to take my income tax wil next two weeks will this help my credit score once it paid in full

Tue, 05/16/2017 - 04:58 Permalink
Mbrown62 (not verified)

I am looking for a template to delete a negative account off and remove off my experian.

Wed, 05/17/2017 - 18:58 Permalink
jonathan quist (not verified)

Hi, carol I have 2 medical collections and 1 charge off I want to remove

Sun, 06/11/2017 - 22:12 Permalink
zaru bey (not verified)

I need to take care of 3 cars on my credit, what is reasonable to pay for delete?

Tue, 06/13/2017 - 15:15 Permalink
Celina (not verified)

So my six flags pass got sent to collections i am able to pyad off the debt that i owe , but would a pay for delete work with this as well ?

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howard harris (not verified)

i have a collection on my account and i know its effecting my ability to get loans, also have a lot of inquires just trying to see if paying off this collection would boost my score

Mon, 10/02/2017 - 13:21 Permalink
tracy (not verified)

Hi Carol,

If I ask the creditor to do a settlement payment, will it reflect on my credit report as being paid as agreed or not? Once I pay the past debt, will it increase my credit score?

Tue, 10/03/2017 - 01:42 Permalink
tracy (not verified)

Hi Carol,

how to write a debt for validation letter to creditor

Tue, 10/03/2017 - 01:47 Permalink
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it has been 8 yrs, is it possible to remove it.

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Fri, 11/10/2017 - 22:50 Permalink
Alexander Rodriguez (not verified)

Hi Carol I just wanted to clarify the info I've read by asking a couple questions. I am in the military and while I was on my deployment overseas I received an alert on my credit report for a charge off on my vehicle. My money was still coming out but the lender was not receiving it. I filed a card dispute and got my money back but I need to know how exactly to approach this issue as they have already charged off the account. Should I contact the lender first?

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Tue, 11/28/2017 - 08:42 Permalink
Christopher Williams (not verified)

Hello Carol,
My wife and I went through a foreclosure that finalized in June of 2010. I assumed this would be off of our credit reports by now as it's 7 1/2 years old. However, I just saw today that one of the banks reported it again to Experian in April of 2016. Is this legal? It seems like if they can continue reporting this it won't ever leave my report.

Sat, 12/16/2017 - 19:19 Permalink
Kelli Laird (not verified)

Same story. Trying to buy a house. I really just don't have credit and have to pay for a few things. I'm aware that's were to start.
But there has been a few things in the past that I paid off and should have read more into. Does a pay for deleted offering or settlement work? Also the goodwill deletion?

Wed, 12/27/2017 - 15:47 Permalink
ALLYSON (not verified)

What is going to bring my credit score up? paying off the collection debt using the delete letter and hope for the best or if its not going to come off there is it worth paying it at all ?when I could pay down a balance on a loan or something I have ?

Fri, 02/16/2018 - 15:54 Permalink
Dsman18 (not verified)

Hello Carol, I was wondering if a debt is in collection to whom should the letter go to, the original creditor, or the collection agency that purchased the debt, or both?

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I have had huge success with GW. I had a collection to National Credit Systems that was listed as paid. Sent a GW (I believe twice) and it got deleted.

One 30 day late to Bofa 4 yrs ago, got deleted within a week of my letter.

Also, my hubby had a paid collection to FirstMark FCU, they called him after reciveing the letter to tell him they had it and were going to delete it but it may take up to 30 days (this was after the 3rd letter)

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Hi Carol so I had a question on when I send in the pay for deletion should I contact them over the phone and come up with an agreed upon amount for a lesser payment and also could I type this letter out and have them send me a typed note back with signatures ? Or will this all have to be hand written

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