<human>: ok so this happened while i went to college between 2010-2012. i was checking my credit score last night and saw that it had dropped from a 730 to a 574. i was pretty shocked and then i saw that i had 3 debts added, all from the va stemming from the GI bill i received as a beneficiary from my dad. it was pretty alarming as this was the first time i had heard about these charges. i have been on the phone with them all day today but they have been little to no help. they said that they had sent a letter to my dads old address in march 2015 notifying me of the debt, we have not lived there since 2012 as my dad has moved to florida and i moved to another part of the city. so as you can understand it was pretty shocking to see this charge as i had no knowledge about it or i would have taken the correct plan of action to fix it. so my question is if i pay off this debt (which is around $4000) now will i be able to have them take this off of my credit report? and how i would go about doing that. thanks!

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<bot>: sent to collections for debt that i knew nothing about, if i pay now will i be able to get the debt taken off of my credit report.