New Credit Changes Coming July 1st | Monday Mortgage Q&A
There are some new changes coming to credit reporting that take effect on July 1, 2017.
These new changes are anticipated to help nearly 12 million people. As part of the National Consumer Assistance Plan, there are changes that will be made over a three year period.
Brandon Snider, Regional Manager for Willow Bend Mortgage, recently hosted a Facebook Live event where he covered some of these upcoming changes.
The National Consumer Assistance Plan is being implemented over three years, and the new website will serve as a vehicle for updating consumers about changes to their ability to interact with the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies.
Changes included in the National Consumer Assistance Plan include:
Consumer experience:
Consumers visiting www.annualcreditreport.com, the website that allows consumers to obtain a free credit report once a year will see expanded educational material.
Consumers who obtain their free annual credit report and dispute information resulting in modification of the disputed item will be able to obtain another free annual report without waiting a year.
Consumers who dispute items on their credit reports will receive additional information from the credit reporting agencies along with the results of their dispute, including a description of what they can do if they are not satisfied with the outcome of their dispute.
The credit reporting agencies (CRAs) are focusing on an enhanced dispute resolution process for victims of identity theft and fraud, as well as those who may have credit information belonging to another consumer on their file, commonly called a “mixed file.”
Data accuracy and quality:
Medical debts won’t be reported until after a 180-day “waiting period” to allow insurance payments to be applied. The CRAs will also remove from credit reports previously reported medical collections that have been or are being paid by insurance.
Consistent standards will be reinforced by the credit bureaus to lenders and others that submit data for inclusion in a credit report (data furnishers).
Data furnishers will be prohibited from reporting authorized users without a date of birth and the CRAs will reject data that does not comply with this requirement.
The CRAs will eliminate the reporting of debts that did not arise from a contract or agreement by the consumer to pay, such as traffic tickets or fines.
A multi-company working group of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies has been formed to regularly review and help ensure consistency and uniformity in the data submitted by data furnishers for inclusion in a consumer’s credit report.
If you have any questions about the changes or how they might affect you, feel free to reach out to our office at 256-734-6012 and talk to any of the fine folks on the Snider Mortgage Team.
