Seniors with growing credit card balances have options, but true senior-specific relief is another story entirely.

As the credit card bills pile up and the variable interest rates on your cards climb higher, it's easy to become trapped in a cycle of debt that you can't easily overcome. And, when you add the ...

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Credit card debt has become a massive issue for Americans over the last few years — and that problem is compounding rapidly, according to recent data. As of the fourth quarter of 2024, cardholders ...

Debt Support National has expanded its comprehensive debt relief programs to address the growing financial pressures facing American consumers struggling with mounting credit card balances and other ...

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An ongoing effort to wipe out up to $700 million in medical debt for Wayne County residents has made a discovery some may find surprising. Those most in need of medical debt relief were not the ...

A North Carolina program incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients’ medical debts has cut more than $6.5 billion in accrued debts for more than 2.5 million people since launching last summer. The ...

Some New Yorkers will soon start to see their medical debt forgiven under a city-funded initiative, months after the program was set to go into effect. In the final days of 2024, the city inked an $18 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — General Treasurer James Diossa announced the launch of a new program Tuesday morning aimed to ease the burden of unpaid medical bills for Rhode Islanders. The Medical Debt ...

The Meyer administration is partnering with nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, which buys bundles of unpaid bills for about a penny on the dollar.