Some people living in the city of Cleveland will soon see significant relief from their medical debts. City Council approved $1.9 million of federal money to help wipe out debts.
CLEVELAND — Some people living in the city of Cleveland will soon see significant relief from their medical debts. City Council approved $1.9 million of federal money to help wipe about $200 million in debts. Here’s how that will work, what you should expect in the mail, and what concerns there are about using federal money in this way.
“Increasingly over the last few years, we’ve really been engaging hospitals directly. And so we buy the debt directly from the hospitals,” said the CEO of RIP Medical Debt Allison Sesso.RIP will use zip code tracking to verify only Cleveland residents will receive the medical debt relief. The income requirements are people facing 400% of the poverty level or lower or Clevelanders whose debt is 5% or more of their income.
“That debt can become such a weight on your shoulders,” said Councilman Charles Slife. He told us people should start seeing letters in the mail with signatures from the city and from RIP Medical Debt sometime later in the summer or the fall stating their debt has been eliminated.They will be similar letters to ones that News 5 helped send out nearly 4 years ago when our station wiped about $1.5 million of medical debt for people in Northeast Ohio through RIP Medical Debt.
Slife says paying off residents' debt will help them “improve their own circumstance, help them fix their own houses, help them pay for their education. Being able to get this debt off of their shoulders is a really quick and impactful way to help out thousands of people in the city of Cleveland.”There’s no need to apply for the medical debt relief. RIP Medical Debt will be doing all the work and sending out the notices.
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