The city has opened two financial empowerment centers in Flatbush and East New York, where working class New Yorkers can get free help in dealing with medical debt, student loans, opening a bank account and more.
The city has opened eight financial empowerment locations in public hospitals across the boroughs to help New Yorkers better plan and avoid going into medical debt in the future.
In January, Mayor Eric Adams said thousands of working class New Yorkers would start seeing their medical debts wiped out under the Medical Debt Relief program that was launched in 2024. So far, $135 million in medical debt for over 75,000 people have been erased, Adams said on Wednesday.
“For too long, and for too many, medical debt…