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St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Santa Fe, N.Mex., is reaching out to families crushed by medical debt through a big gift and a big partnership. Through donations, the parish wiped out nearly $1.4 million of medical debt for 782 households. The church worked with RIP Medical Debt, a well-respected organization that identifies households whose incomes are less than twice the poverty level or are insolvent and owe medical debt. Then they buy the debt at a fraction of face value (as a collection agency would) and pay it off using donations. St. Bede's grant of $15,000 cleared $1,380,119.87 in medical debt for families who live in New Mexico and parts of Arizona. Beneficiaries were notified by letter that their medical debt had been cleared. One affected individual wrote to the church, "I would love to thank personally that special person that helped me with my account. I am so thankful and I just want to say God bless you always."
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