SF-85P With overall bad credit

SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A
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Hello everyone,

I have some questions in regards to my public trust that is currently being investigated.
Yesterday, I submitted my E-Qip for a public trust clearance so that I can start working as an Air Traffic Controller with a government contract company. I am waiting for a “condition clearance” in order to start my job in a couple weeks. I have outstanding debt that is in collections due to some financial difficulties and overall not knowing how to balance a budget when I was younger. I submitted 4 collections and 1 charge off on the SF-85p.

I’m just stressed about it not accepted because I have the outstanding debts. I’m finally in a situation where I can pay these debts off. I am in the process of contacting the companies so that I can start payment plans.

Does the investigators take into account that I have been paying my bills on time and that I have started making steps to pay off the outstanding debts?

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Yes as long as your attempting to pay off the delinquencies you should be OK if there aren’t any other issues to mitigate.

3

Awesome, thank you. I’ve never had any issues with the police or anything like that. My only worry was the financial portion.

Do they also take into account that I have held a secret clearance for the past 9 years?

4

Yes they take everything into account. They use the whole person concept. Pluses and minuses.

5

Of interest to the adjudicator will be the circumstances that led to the debt, what you did about it at the time and what you are doing about it now.

6

Thank you for the responses,
I will update you guys on what the decision is.

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Hey, This is very similar to the position I’m in. Do you have any update on this?

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I just told them the truth and explained my situations and what I was doing to fix them. I got the contracted job. Then the FAA hired me last month using the same investigation.