THEE Alliance Forgiving Medical Debt - RIP Medical Debt

Lord of Life Lutheran - Maple Grove, MN

Forgiveness For Families

$71,000
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This year we’re focusing on medical debt Forgiveness for Families.
Every day, 25% of Americans need to choose between paying medical bills or basic needs. Most of these families are more afraid of medical bills than illness, itself.
Our goal is to raise $75,000 this November to forgive crushing medical debt, so families don’t have to choose between paying these bills or providing for their basic needs. Every $1 you give, $100 of family medical debt is forgiven. We expect meeting our goal will relieve 6,000 families of their medical debt burden!
Since 2019, Lord of Life members have abolished medical debt for over 22,000 families. Join us this year as we add to that number and bless even more families.

Campaign Support Recipients
The Upper Midwest

This fundraiser supports a campaign: THEE Alliance Forgiving Medical Debt.

Campaign Details

REMINDER: IF YOU ARE DONATING AS A CONGREGATION, PLEASE USE YOUR CONGREGATION’S NAME RATHER THAN INDIVIDUAL NAME! Minnesota and Upper Midwest faith communities are coming together as THEE Alliance Forgiving Medical Debt to erase debt for financial hardship families. Leveraging our legendary generosity with RIP’s expertise, our goal is to forgive $100 million for 50,000 families over the next three years! Medical costs have doubled in the past forty years, insurance copays and deductibles have spiked, and bankruptcy rates have quadrupled, creating an avalanche of destructive medical debt. More than 60% of bankruptcies in America have […]

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$71,000
raised of $75,000 goal
94%
  • Recent Donations
  • Donor Avatar
    Lord of Life Lutheran Church just donated $15,356
  • Donor Avatar
    Judy & Brad G. just donated $205.33
  • Donor Avatar
    Barbara And Bryan C. just donated $1,000
  • Donor Avatar
    John M. just donated $1,025.85
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    Brad Z. just donated $102.77
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    Steve & Val M. just donated $256.62
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    Anonymous just donated $513.03
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    David And Mary H. just donated $102.77

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Give this fundraiser a boost towards success by helping to raise money targeted directly at those in need.

How RIP Works

Over a hundred million Americans, one in three, struggles with the weight of medical debt.

  • You make a donation

    We use data analytics to pinpoint the debt of those most in need: households that earn less than 4x the federal poverty level (varies by state, family size) or whose debts are 5% or more of annual income.

  • RIP buys medical debt at a steep discount

    We buy debt in bundles, millions of dollars at a time at a fraction of the original cost. This means your donation relieves about 100x its value in medical debt.

  • Together we wipe out medical debt

    People across the country receive letters that their debt has been erased. They have no tax consequences or penalties to consider. Just like that, they’re free of medical debt.


Frequent Questions

Yes. We are a 501(c)(3) charity and your donation is 100% tax deductible.


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When we purchase a portfolio of medical debt, we abolish debt for individuals who:

  • Earn less than 4x the federal poverty level (varies by state, family size).
  • Debts are 5 percent or more of annual income.

We only buy debt that has been pre-qualified by our partners to meet at least one of these criteria. 

We never collect on debt we purchase, only relieve it.

No. With your help, we abolish medical debt permanently. Recipients have no adverse tax consequences, obligations, or strings attached.

For those whose medical debts are relieved, the relief is a gift from a detached and disinterested third party (RIP) as an act of generosity, so relief of the debt does not count as income to the debtor. We will not file a Form 1099-C with the IRS.

Due to HIPAA laws, RIP Medical Debt cannot disclose the names, contact information or any other specific details of the debt relief beneficiaries.

RIP Medical Debt cannot relieve debt by individual request.

While we would love to help everyone who needs assistance, RIP Medical Debt cannot abolish medical debt for specific individuals. We approach the problem of medical debt by acquiring large portfolios of debt to help thousands of people at once.

Because medical debt affects so many people who may not have debt accounts in the portfolios we purchase, we have compiled a list of resources that may be able to help in ways RIP Medical Debt cannot.

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