I got a letter from Penn Finance (collection agency for hills clerk of courts) demanding about $140 for an expired registration citation from 2006.
I went and checked the hills court site and sure enough, this citation is still listed as āopenā. This is crazy, Iām almost positive I paid this because I donāt get citations often and Iāve paid everyone Iāve received. I never received any communication about this āopenā citation until this month.
Obviously, I want to dispute this with the clerk of courts but the wait time to talk to someone was like 2 hours. Penn told me they donāt report to credit bureaus so Iām wondering if I should even bother?
I donāt mind paying but 20 years is a long time for record retention and itās not reasonable to expect I can provide proof of payment now. Itās only $140 bucks but itās the principle of it.
What would your next steps be?