LEXINGTON, Ky. — Vice Mayor Dan Wu announced Wednesday that a second wave of medical debt relief has erased $5.6 million in unpaid bills for more than 3,200 Fayette County residents, bringing the city’s total debt cancellation to roughly $18 million for nearly 10,000 households since the program launched.
Wu shared the news during the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council’s Feb. 26 meeting at Council Chambers, playing a recorded video message for residents who may have received letters from the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt. “If you received this letter in the mail … saying that your debt has been acquired and canceled, this letter is indeed real, as is your medical debt relief,” Wu said. He thanked fellow council members for their unanimous support of the $1 million appropriation he proposed in 2024 and signaled that additional rounds of relief could follow. “We are not done yet,” he said. “The work continues and there may be more waves of relief to come.”
The announcement punctuated an otherwise procedural session in which all 15 council members were present, all votes were unanimous, and no members of the public signed up to speak on agenda items…