SPRINGFIELD (25News Now) – Gov. JB Pritzker said since the Medical Debt Relief Program began last July, it has erased $345 million in medical debt for 270,000 people, with the goal of erasing $1 billion of debt.
Residents with a household income at or below 400% of the federal poverty level, or those with medical debt that takes up five percent or more of their income, are automatically qualified for the program. w
“The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that nearly 10% of Illinois’s population, and 100 million people nationwide, struggle with medical debt,” said the nonprofit the Vice President of Government initiatives on Undue Medical Debt, Courtney Story.
Those whose debt has been forgiven so far will receive letters next week…
