Multiple families in Chicago had a little something extra to be thankful for this year after three churches got together to raise money and help to forgive unpaid medical debt!
The churches raised about $38,000, then used it to pay off MILLIONS of dollars in unpaid medical debt for 6,000 random families.
SIX THOUSAND FAMILIES!!
It was all done through a group called R.I.P. Medical Debt who buys up debt from collection agencies for pennies on the dollar.
The families who were gifted the forgiven debt received letters in the mail letting them know their medical debt had been wiped, just in time for the holidays.
But wait . . . it gets better!
One of people who had debt forgiven was a woman named Carol Johnson, who still owed $450 in medical debt for her mom who had since passed away.
Carol and her son were so touched by the kindness, they scraped together the $450 they would have owed and donated it back to one of the churches for Thanksgiving.
The church says they’ll use the money to feed a family of five for a week.
(NBC News)
