Mayor Adams announces $80 million in medical debt forgiveness for low income New Yorkers through historic debt relief program.
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Mayor Eric Adams announced today that 35,000 New Yorkers will be relieved of $80 million in medical debt, marking the first round of a plan to provide extensive debt relief.
This effort, the largest municipal medical debt relief program in the country, will ultimately aim to assist up to 500,000 New Yorkers over the next three years.
Beginning this week, letters will be sent to those eligible, notifying them that their…