BOSTON (AP) - United Church of Christ congregations across southern New England have helped raise enough money to erase about $26 million in medical debt for about 20,000 families.
The churches in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island; four
church associations; and more than 100 households raised more than $200,000. The UCC says that money went to the New-York based nonprofit RIP Medical Debt. It bought debt in August from collection agencies for pennies on the dollar.
Over $8 million in medical debt for over 7,000 households in the Northeast will be
wiped out. Another nearly $18 million in debt for more than 12,000 health care
workers and first responders across the U.S. will also be erased.
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