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Jessica Kushner has had bad credit since even before she knew what credit was.

It all started when she was 12 years old.

My mom had a problem getting Christmas one year,

so she decided to sign up for the Finger Hut magazine and she got all of our Christmas

presents on my name with the Finger Up magazine.

And I didn't learn about any of this until I myself had turned 18 and I was interested in getting something from Finger Hut magazine when they told me you're not approved because you owe us X amount of money and I'm like

really do like I was 12 like would you like my mom's information?

So Jessica can thankfully laugh a little about that bad credit, but it meant that she

couldn't get a credit card and not having a credit card meant not being able to

improve her credit score and that meant

Jessica was locked out of most other important financial services such as home or

car loans. Well Jessica is now 46 years old and you can imagine the frustration she feels from

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