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   Pat (patrascan@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:42:42 JST Pat

   • Vee

   @VeroniqueB99 part of this is misinformation. As a single and later a married woman, I had my own bank account without a man's permission well before 1974. While most married women were dependent upon hubby's income, state (not federal) banking laws and the various banks' policies covered who was allowed to open an account, the usual criterion being age. To say women were not allowed to have their own acct prior to 1974 is not true.

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     Millicent (millicent@toot.community)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:42:38 JST Millicent

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     • Vee

     @patrascan @VeroniqueB99 The mother of longtime reporter Cokie Roberts, became a member of Congress when her husband died. She was wealthy and from an influential family, the type of woman who had never been told “no”. As a new widow and member of Congress she found she had no credit rating and could not secure a loan or credit card. Needless to say this made an impression. She drove legislation that extended a husband’s credit rating to his wife.

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     Pat (patrascan@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:42:40 JST Pat

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     • Vee

     @Millicent @VeroniqueB99 married people with joint accounts would typically share the same credit rating based on joint activity, wouldn't they? That was true for me until I got divorced, after which I established my own credit rating based on my history. I do not dispute women's economic dependence upon their husbands. However. I am unaware of federal legal mandates covering womens' financial assets and credit ratings.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Millicent (millicent@toot.community)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:42:41 JST Millicent

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     • Vee

     @patrascan @VeroniqueB99 women could have bank accounts. As a child I had a bank account. What changed was passage of a federal law requiring that women have the same credit as their husbands. This was a tsunami