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3 Easy Ways to Build Your Credit Score with a Secured Credit Card

October 6, 2016 By Green Dot 2 Comments

3 Easy Ways to Build Your Credit Score with a Secured Credit Card

So, what can good credit do for you? Having good credit can make it a lot easier to do things that you never guessed would require a credit check – like land a job or find a place to live. If you use the tips below, you could build the credit you need to help you get the loan you were looking for and probably at a much more reasonable rate than if you had bad credit or no … [Read more...]

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