BLACKSBURG, Va. (WCYB) — The Secular Society, a non-profit located in Blacksburg, is eliminating $51,348,305 in medical debt for 35,007 residents in Southwest Virginia. According to the group’s spokesperson, Rachel Helton, letters are being mailed out to residents and should arrive within the next 2-4 weeks.
According to the Secular Society, to be eligible, the debt must be held by someone with a family income less than four times the federal poverty level, or by someone for whom medical debt is 5% or more of their annual income.
In order to make this arraignment possible, The Secular Society has partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a New York-based nonprofit organization that buys medical debt…