Los Angeles-area church erases $5.3 million in medical debt for poor families
by Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - In an astounding Christmas gift, an Eagle Rock church is wiping out $5.3 million in medical debt for thousands of low-income Los Angeles-area residents.
Using more than $50,000 worth of donations from parishioners, Christian Assembly Church is working with a debt-forgiveness nonprofit to help erase bills for 5,555 households who earn less than twice the federal poverty level.
Twenty-eight cities in Los Angeles County were selected for the debt-relief program based on neighborhoods where church members
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