Family drama is hard to navigate. However, when that drama stems from finances being skewed in a way that makes someone’s life harder, it can create situations where resolution is impossible. That seems to be the case for one person who discovered her family had been using her Social Security Number to secure loans since she was 12.
She chose to remain anonymous when she posted about her issue on Reddit. Although her financial journey began when she was just 12 — or as she described it, “Cable in 2014, a furniture store card in 2016, a cell family plan when I was 18” — she explained that she only realized the depth of the financial hole she’d been shoved into once she started college
