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If You Intend to End Veteran Suicide, It’s a Wonderful Life Provides the Way

It’s that awful/joyful holiday time again, when we are doing our best to join with the season’s hopes, but weighed down by the pain we see and expe...

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Well, that felt good.

In excess of a half-million dollars in unpaid Veteran Debt will be abolished this Christmas season, thanks to an unusual collaboration of The Staten Island Performing Provider System (SIPPS) the Service Member Veteran and Family Task Force (SMVF),...

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He wiped out $10B in medical debt. Now he’s battling veteran debt

After launching a nonprofit that’s eliminated more than $10 billion of medical debt in the U.S., a Navy veteran is seeking to relieve the burden of debt for his fellow former service members. Jerry Ashton leveraged his experience in the debt collection industry to launch Undue Medical Debt, form...

The Healthcare Maze - Debt Day National Campaign

We are pleased to have Jerry Ashton with us. Jerry, has been on the program before. He's a former Navy journalist best known for co founding the national charity R.I. P. Medical debt, which is now Undue Medical Debt. Jerry has launched a new charity called End Veteran Debt.org. This new charity i...

Military Veterans in Journalism to participate in “Operation Debt-Day”

A new yearlong initiative called “Debt-Day” launching today seeks to eliminate $80 million worth of debt, some predatory, some of necessity that military veterans owe to collections agencies and lenders. Financial distress is a known predictor of suicide, and it has wreaked havoc on veterans an...

Voices of D-Day – Stars and Stripes Interviews with Those Who Were There

June 6, 2024 is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces launched a naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. By way of a series of interviews conducted by the World War II Foundation, Stars and Stripes is sharing these heroic stories. To learn how truly indebted...

Dear Citizen: Medical Massage Therapists Serving Veterans Are Disputing Payment Terms with the VA. Now, It’s YOUR Problem

For some time now, End Veteran Debt (EVD) has been engaged in making visible an implacable position regarding equitable payment being taken by the VA in a dispute between this agency and Medical Massage Therapists (MMTs). A dispute that, if not settled soon, will cost the veteran dearly in access...

Health Insurer Admits “Mistake” – and Still Sticks Disabled Veteran With $110,000 in Medical Bills

[Editor's note: the newsletter mentioned in this article refers to Allen Health Academy - Marshall Allen's newsletter] Here’s the good news: Marshall Allen of Allen Health Academy used his paid subscribers' monies to come to the rescue. The second good news: Veteran Mission Possible's Jerry Asht...

House of Prayer, Accused of Bilking Veterans Out of Millions, Said to Be Stonewalling Investigation

Federal prosecutors say a church accused of scamming veterans out of millions of dollars’ worth of benefits is stalling an investigation and should be held in contempt of court and fined. House of Prayer, which has locations across Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and Washington state, has effecti...

Rest in Peace, RIP Medical Debt. Your name is retired — And Your Mission Continues

On Monday, April 15, 2024, “RIP” will have been laid to rest, and the charity that I and RIP’s co-founder Craig Antico struggled to start some 10 years ago will be relaunched as Undue Medical Debt. Gone will be its former logo (itself revised from the crude original above we first created) and ...

Veteran Michael Thorin's Debt and Disability Ordeal and How to Show Support

Jerry Ashton, the founder of End Veteran Debt.org, aims to prevent future stories like Michael's: Michael Thorin wants other veterans to know of his journey through debt and disability. After his last deployment to Iraq in 2005-2006, he returned home to Alabama and his chosen career as a tactic...

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