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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. It’s a strategy advocates say could be duplicated across the country to help erase a multibillion-dollar problem.

Some states have taken their stimulus recovery funds and helped residents to get out of medical debt, which can be bought for pennies on the dollar.

Medical debt is more common in certain areas of the country, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, particularly in the Southeast and Southwest.

The city will use $800,000 to erase around $200 million in medical debt

WASHINGTON, D.C. — 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

Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt.

Governments in Ohio and Illinois use ARPA money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt by partnering with group that buys 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. It’s a strategy advocates say could be duplicated across the country to help erase a multibillion-dollar problem.

Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt.

It’s a strategy advocates say could be duplicated across the country to help erase a multibillion-dollar medical debt problem.