“A new law allows people to permanently erase unpaid debt older than two years from their credit records.”
Social media posts
TikTok. Claim dated 23 Jun 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
There is no new federal law that lets people erase unpaid debt from their credit records after only two years.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 June 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 August 2023, 40 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/iktkh
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