Government credit card relief options may be scarce, but there are several other paths to reduce what you owe.

Americans continue to struggle under the weight of crushing debt. Consumers owed an average of $104,755 as of mid-2025 — down ...

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As the credit card bills pile up and the variable interest rates on your cards climb higher, it's easy to become trapped in a cycle of debt that you can't easily overcome. And, when you add the ...

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The cost of healthcare in the U.S. has always been high, but for many Americans, the issue has gone from frustrating to financially devastating. More than 41% of adults are now carrying some form of ...

Debt Support National has expanded its comprehensive debt relief programs to better serve New Hampshire residents facing financial challenges. The expansion addresses the growing need for accessible ...

An ongoing effort to wipe out up to $700 million in medical debt for Wayne County residents has made a discovery some may find surprising. Those most in need of medical debt relief were not the ...

This state just freed its residents of $6.5 billion in medical debt, leading many to ask whether other states can, will and should attempt to do the same.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — General Treasurer James Diossa announced the launch of a new program Tuesday morning aimed to ease the burden of unpaid medical bills for Rhode Islanders. The Medical Debt ...

More than $180 million in medical debt will be erased for more than 39,000 Los Angeles County residents as part of the L.A.

Ambulances line up outside the emergency department in 2022 as they transport patients into Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles. L.A. County is helping to pay off medical debt for ...