The city will use $800,000 to erase around $200 million in medical debt
Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt by partnering with an organization that buys debt and wipes the slate clean for debtors.
$13,590 for a one-person household to $46,630 for an eight-person household for the majority of states, and have medical debt that is more than 5% of their income to qualify. “I have had several local governments reach out looking to do the same thing. I hope they can take the Toledo model and make it nationwide. Washington DC doesn’t have a plan to eliminate medical debt but Toledo, [Ohio] does.”Kaiser Family Foundation report
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