We at Community United Church of Christ in Champaign, Illinois, would like to invite you to join us in a campaign to alleviate medical debt for individuals both in Illinois, where we are located, and in other places across our country! We have set our fundraising goal at $8,000, which would alleviate approximately $800,000 in medical debt, thanks to the efforts of RIP Medical Debt and donors like you!
Why are we doing this?
Community United Church of Christ is a Peace with Justice Church. That means that we covenant to seek the ways of justice and peace so as to make a difference in the lives of all who experience injustice and violence in our nation and the world. As a church, we have made this public covenant for peace with justice since 1988. Medical debt in America is a huge issue of injustice. It destroys the financial stability of large segments of America’s most vulnerable communities: the sick, the elderly, the poor, and veterans. It also targets the middle class, driving many families into poverty. Medical debt is the #1 cause of consumer bankruptcy in the country. Medical debt is not the result of bad decisions by these families; it’s a debt of necessity.
How does it work?
Medical debt is purchased in bundled portfolios from the secondary debt market and health care providers to relieve thousands of individuals at one time. To qualify to have debt relieved, someone must meet one of two qualifications:
- earning at or less than 2x the federal poverty level
- have debts that are 5% or more of annual income
Once RIP has pinpointed the portfolios for those in or near the poverty level, they use our donations to buy up their debt. Then they send notices to the benefiting families, and subsequently help the recipients repair their credit reports – renewing their access to opportunities and resources that will allow them to rebuild and recover.
How can I contribute?
We, the members and friends of Community UCC, invite you to help make this possible. Please know that every dollar, up to $2500 will be matched through the generosity of the CUCC Mission Team and a CUCC family. Give here, give today, and please, share on social media.
Please join us in this endeavor and together we can do great things!!
Campaign Support Recipients
- Recent Donations
- CUCC Member M. just donated $2,000.20
- CUCC C. just donated $25.20
- CUCC C. just donated $212.80
- Mark W. just donated $102.77
- Carla R. just donated $30.20
- CUCC C. just donated $151.58
- CUCC C. just donated $851.55
- John O. just donated $100.20
Fundraise for This Campaign
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How RIP Works
Over a hundred million Americans, one in three, struggles with the weight of medical debt.
Here’s how we lift them up.
You make a donation
With every donation, RIP uses its precise data analytics to pinpoint the medical debt of those most in need of relief: households whose incomes are less than four times the federal poverty level guideline or with medical debt representing at least 5% of gross income.
RIP buys medical debt at a steep discount
Your donations allow us to buy debt in bundled portfolios, millions of dollars at a time at a fraction of the original cost. On average, whatever you donate has 100x the impact.
Together we wipe out medical debt
People across the country receive a letter that their debt is gone. No taxes. No penalties. Just like that, they’re free of medical debt.
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