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By prohibiting health care providers from seeking liens against patients' homes, House Bill 673 would go a long way toward providing relief from one of the most harmful medical debt collection practices and recognizing how vital housing stability and homeownership is to economic security and physical health.
The National Consumer Law Center submitted testimony in response to a request from the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and the State of New York for feedback on the state of nursing home debt collection in New York. Additional attention and focus on nursing home debt collection is needed in New York to…
NCLC and CLICC are proud sponsors of AB 1119 (Wicks), a bill to ensure that no one is imprisoned because they owe consumer debt. While debtors' prisons are banned in every state by constitution, statute, or judicial decision, in reality they live on because a court may issue an arrest warrant for someone who did not make it to court in a debt collection matter.
Written testimony regarding §§ 1, 2 and 3 of H.B. 5427, an Act Concerning Issues Relating to Debt Collection
The National Consumer Law Center thanks Senator Eldridge for introducing S.578 and Representative Brodeur for introducing its companion H.919 and offers the following testimony in support of S.578/H.919
Medical debt is one of the most prevalent types of consumer debt. 13% of Oregon residents inpredominantly white zip codes have one or more medical debts in collection on their creditreports, increasing to 15% for residents of predominantly non-white zip codes. Among U.S.consumers, 52% of collection items on credit reports are for medical debts. Medical…