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CCJ's

Hi,

I know a CCJ stays on your credit report for 6 years, but is that the date from which it was issued or when it was settled?

I was talking to a friend last night in the pub and he thought it was from when it was issued and his reasoning for this was, that if you were issued a CCJ in 2000, and paid it in 2002, then you'd have the CCJ on your file until 2008, if it was 6 years from settlement. However, if you just decided not to settle the CCJ, then it would clear from your file in 2006.

Is that correct?

Thanks guys and gals
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    It's 6 years from the date it is satisfied (settled) I'm afraid.
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
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  • Nicky_3
    Nicky_3 Posts: 92 Forumite
    A CCJ stays on your credit file 6 years from when it was first registered, not from when it was settled.

    Same as default notices.
    Satisfied judgments are retained for six years from the date of the judgment. Judgments that have been paid within one calendar month will be removed from our records.

    Taken from

    http://www.experian.co.uk/consumer/index.html
    Debt is not the be all and end all. There is always a solution!
  • ok....which one is it? :)
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Just to clarify - it does stay on there for 6 years, however if you haven't repaid it by then, it will be re-registered, it doesn't just disappear.
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
  • Nicky_3
    Nicky_3 Posts: 92 Forumite
    Sorry, edited to show you that it is from when the judgement was first registered.
    Debt is not the be all and end all. There is always a solution!
  • Locana
    Locana Posts: 478 Forumite
    Snaggles wrote:
    Just to clarify - it does stay on there for 6 years, however if you haven't repaid it by then, it will be re-registered, it doesn't just disappear.


    Who re-registers it?

    Thanks
    Lo
  • Nicky_3
    Nicky_3 Posts: 92 Forumite
    If the judgment is not paid, then the creditor/court can re-register it, otherwise it automatically falls off after six year.
    Debt is not the be all and end all. There is always a solution!
  • Nicky wrote:
    A CCJ stays on your credit file 6 years from when it was first registered, not from when it was settled.

    Same as default notices.



    Taken from

    http://www.experian.co.uk/consumer/index.html

    So, to clarify, I received a letter from a DCA in July 2001 I acknowledge the debt and paid it off in either July/August/September 2003. So the CCJ should disappear from my file in July/August/September of this year?
  • Nicky_3
    Nicky_3 Posts: 92 Forumite
    Yep, thats correct.
    Debt is not the be all and end all. There is always a solution!
  • Sorry, me again....so if I recieved the letter from a DCA in July 2001, would the CCJ have been put against my account in July 2001 or before then?

    I know this sounds stupid, but I'm scared to get a credit report. It feels like I've failed. Does that any sense?
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