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Orange County expands medical debt relief initiative

Credit: Shutterstock Orange County commissioners on Tuesday approved additional funding for a first-of-its-kind program in Central Florida to eliminate medical debt for local residents. Since 2024, the county has leveraged $4.5 million in federal dollars received under the American Rescue Plan Act to eliminate over $637 million in medical debt — one of the leading…

Record number of consumers entering debt consolidation amid rising costs and delinquencies

A record number of Americans entered debt consolidation in the first half of 2026, signaling deepening financial stress as inflation and high interest rates squeeze household budgets. Nearly 15,000 new clients enrolled in debt-management plans with Money Management International—one of the nation’s largest debt-management nonprofits—in the first six months of the year, marking the largest…