APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (AZFamily) — Kerry Morgan, a teacher from Apache Junction, is house-hunting for her forever home in Texas. A new grandbaby is on the way, and she wants to be closer to family. “Now, with the credit hit, I’m probably postponed a few more months,” Morgan said.
To understand that credit hit, we have to go back a few months to January. Morgan went to the emergency room. On her way to the hospital, she was told her bill would be more than $700. “I said, ‘Well, I don’t have that. Can I be on a payment plan?’ They said, ‘Sure. Let me take a look,‘” she recalled. “They came back with $30 a month and I said, ‘OK, perfect,’ and they said, ‘You should get an email.‘”
A couple of days later, Morgan got an alert. “I got a hit on my credit saying somebody did a hard look at my credit, and of course I was freaking out, like what is going on?” she said. “Come to find out, it was Banner (Health), hit my credit and signed me up for a credit card to put the payments on.”…