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Help with Credit Clean Up

Hi, Can somebody please help me?

My credit files have arrived and I am starting to go through them, but my records dont look like the sample records on the Credit Clean Up thread and I cant see how the information relates to what I have in mine. I'm all confused :huh:

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  • Contracts_Engineer
    Contracts_Engineer Posts: 208 Forumite
    edited 13 June 2012 at 3:53PM
    lets say you owed lloyds £10000 when you went br.

    your credit file should show that lloyds is owed £0 or says settled.

    You should not have any outstanding debts, all should say £0 / settled / satisfactory from the date you went br
  • sam-wileman
    sam-wileman Posts: 36 Forumite
    Okay, I am slightly dim :) If I give an example, on mine it says this;

    Current- £+0
    Default- £783
    start- 15/07/2008
    Default- 10/2009
    End- 31/10/2009
    Supplementary Flag- Partial

    BR in Feb 10 and discharged Jul 10

    So would this be correct on my file?
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    That one is OK.

    Default date is on or before your BR date = correct.

    Partial settlement flag = correct/acceptable
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  • also it says "current £0" which i believe is what your after as well :T
  • sam-wileman
    sam-wileman Posts: 36 Forumite
    edited 14 June 2012 at 3:10PM
    Thanks for your help.

    Does the record have to have settled/ partial settled on. I have quite a few that say current balance £0 will that be enough?

    So the ones that are wrong will be the ones that have a current balance?

    Also I have a lot of searches from a "Mackenzie Hall- Kilmarnock" for "Trace" dating back to 2010, will these drop off my file or do I need to ask for them to be taken off?

    Sorry for being a pain
  • sam-wileman
    sam-wileman Posts: 36 Forumite
    :eek: I have just looked up Santander for an address and there is loads! How do you know which one to write to?

    Also quite ironic,is that 2 of the records wrong on my file are the only 2 companies I have credit with now, not sure how that works
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