Bononi Ex Rel. Bankruptcy Estate of Zilka v. Bayer Employees Fed. Credit Union (In Re Zilka)

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• holding that a charged off loan “is not the legal equivalent of forgiving a debt” (internal citations omitted)
• finding that, as a matter of law, when a lender issues an account statement to its borrower indicating that an outstanding loan balance equals $0.00 because such loan has been charged off, it is not the legal equivalent of forgiving (i.e. discharging liability on
• under Pennsylvania law, issuance of Form 1099-C does not constitute an admission that debt was forgiven and does not operate as a discharge of debt
• “Forms 1099-C, as a matter of law, do not themselves operate to legally discharge debtor from liability on those claims described in such Forms 1099-C.”
• “That Forms 1099-C can be corrected would be impossible were it the case that the filing and issuance of a Form 1099-C constitutes an admission by the creditor that it has discharged the debt and can no longer pursue collection thereon.”

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