(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker met with Cook County health officials Tuesday to announce a combined $2.6 ...

More medical debt is being wiped out in the Chicago area. On Tuesday, Gov. JB Pritzker, Cook County Board President Toni ...

Illinois collectively erased $1.1 billion in medical debt just 15 months after its Medical Debt Relief Program began.

Last year, Lexington entered a partnership with Undue Medical Debt, a national nonprofit which purchases and forgives medical ...

Illinois’ Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program erased more than $1 billion of debt last year. The program is done through a partnership with the nonprofit group Undue Medical Debt. The partnership helped ...

The state partnered with a nonprofit to wipe out the debts. It also has a plan in place to prevent medical debt for people in specific income brackets.

When Pritzker announced the program's first round of debt erasure in November 2024, he said $1 billion in debt elimination ...

In an announcement made Tuesday, the Rotary Club of Oxford announced it has helped 597 people in Granville County get a total of $1.07 million in medical debt erased. According to the rotary club, ...