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State delinquent debtors

Listed in the bulletin?

Enter a cédula or a NIT and check whether it appears in the Boletín de Deudores Morosos del Estado, run by the Contaduría General de la Nación. Free, no login.

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Two verdicts in a single lookup

The Boletín de Deudores Morosos del Estado (BDME) is run by the Contaduría General de la Nación and lists the people and entities with overdue obligations to public bodies. This is not a criminal or a disciplinary record: it is a debt, and it acts as a bar to contracting with the State and to taking up a public post until it is settled. The lookup returns two independent verdicts, each with its own wording: delinquent debt owed to the State, the section created by Ley 901 de 2004, and default on a payment agreement, added by Ley 1066 de 2006. Someone can be listed under only one of the two, so read them separately.

  • Not listed

    The document does not appear in either section of the bulletin.

  • Delinquent debt to the State

    Listed for an overdue obligation owed to a public body (Ley 901 de 2004).

  • Payment agreement default

    Listed for defaulting on a payment agreement signed with a public body (Ley 1066 de 2006).

Common questions

It is the register the Contaduría General de la Nación keeps of the people and entities that owe money to public bodies. Creditor bodies report obligations that are more than six months overdue and above the minimum amount the law sets. It is not a criminal or a disciplinary record: it is a debt, which is why the Contaduría keeps it rather than the Policía, the Procuraduría or the Contraloría.

The first, from Ley 901 de 2004, reports delinquent debt: a clear, express and enforceable obligation owed to a public body that remains unpaid. The second, from Ley 1066 de 2006, reports whoever signed a payment agreement with the body and defaulted on it. They are independent: you can appear in one, the other or both, and the lookup returns them separately.

By paying the obligation or signing a payment agreement, after which the creditor body has to report the change to the Contaduría. The bulletin is compiled from reporting cut-offs, so a recent payment does not drop off immediately: if you have paid and are still listed, the fix is with the body you owed, not with the Contaduría.

It is an informational lookup that returns what the source answers at that moment, not the certificate the Contaduría General de la Nación issues; for a formal procedure you need that document. And yes: being listed in the bulletin bars you from signing contracts with the State and from taking up a public post until the situation is resolved.

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