New York City announced in October that it has canceled nearly $135 million in medical debt for more than 75,000 New Yorkers. It’s part of a program launched last year that sees the city aiming to ...

Re “Months into RV crackdown, homeless drowning in tickets” (Nov. 2) and “Administration seeks to return medical debt to credit reports” (Nov. 2): These unrelated stories share a theme — costly ...

A court ruling this summer canceled a President Joe Biden-era federal effort to remove medical debt from credit reports. Now the Trump administration is seeking to thwart similar state efforts, ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. State program erased $6.5B for 2.5M patients using Medicaid-linked hospital reforms. Relief concentrated in Mecklenburg where ...

At any time, one in five American households bears medical debt, the cause in a majority of U.S. bankruptcies. Since 2014, the charity RIP Medical Debt has abolished more than $8.5 billion worth of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new ...

NEW YORK — The Trump administration is moving to overrule any state laws that may protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt and other debt issues. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Sort of like the loaves and fishes miracle from the Gospels, Transformation Church of Pensacola has turned a $40,000 church donation into a staggering $6.5 million reduction in medical debt for some ...

The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ ...

NEW YORK — The Trump administration is moving to overrule any state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted what’s known as ...

A federal rule restricting the debt’s inclusion has been canceled. Now, the consumer bureau is trying to overturn state restrictions. By Ann Carrns A court ruling this summer canceled a Biden-era ...

As local elected officials scramble to address threats to the social safety net posed by the federal government shutdown, the Orange County government had at least one piece of positive news to share ...