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Mortgage Application and DRO

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I had a DRO agreed in 2018, discharged in 2019. It now doesn't show on any of my credit reports. Do I need to declare it on my mortgage application when it asks if I have ever been declared Bankrupt? I have checked the London Gazette and my name isn't there, so I don't think it's classed as proper Bankruptcy. What do you think please?

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  • Brie
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    A DRO isn't a bankruptcy.  
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  • fatbelly
    fatbelly Posts: 22,890 Forumite
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    And doesn't appear in the Gazette
  • sourcrates
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    So to answer the question, no, you have never been bankrupt.
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  • caprikid1
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    "So to answer the question, no, you have never been bankrupt."

    Often the question is along the lines of "Have you ever come to an arrangement with creditors to play a reduced amount" or similar.
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