eliminate $10 million in debt for families around the city.<\/a><\/p>\nThe forgiven debts range from $500 to $80,000.<\/p>\n
The Dream worked with ForgiveCo to identify families in some of Atlanta’s most financially burdened communities. They then acquired debt at a reduced rate and wiped the balance clean.<\/p>\n
A debt relief blessing for an Atlanta woman<\/p>\n
Angel Stevens moved to Atlanta with big dreams of starting a company doing what she loved.<\/p>\n
“I was in my element here,” she said. “I taught boxing to seniors who had Parkinson’s.”<\/p>\n
She’s been working and trying to save money.<\/p>\n
“Just because I can go out and buy it doesn’t mean I could afford to do it, but it’s like, OK, well, I made enough so that can cover it. But how much are you saving? What do you have for a rainy day?” Steven said.<\/p>\n
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Angel Stevens is one of thousands of Atlanta families who had their medical debt wiped out by the Dream.<\/p>\n
CBS News Atlanta<\/p>\n
Stevens struggled with debt for years. Then one day, she received a text message saying that more than $1,500 in medical debt she owed had been paid off. It reminded her of something her grandmother said.<\/p>\n
“You never know what somebody is going through, right? And you never know when you’re going to need a blessing,” she said.<\/p>\n
For Stevens, this relief brings her closer to the life she’s always wanted.<\/p>\n
“That’s would be the goal to be so wealthy. I just don’t mean financial wealth either. I want happiness, and I want joy, and I want, as my granny would say, ‘it’s the fruits of the spirit,'” she said. “I want all of that. And that’s that’s a goal. It starts with me first.”<\/p>\n
More medical debt relief on the way<\/p>\n
“This is financial freedom, which could mean a lot of things,” Dream spokeswoman Traci Messier said. “It could mean starting a business. It could mean going back to school. It could be buying a first home, but it also could be putting food on the table for a family,” Messier said.<\/p>\n
This isn’t a program you can apply for, but the Dream is planning to do more debt relief in the community, which means more families will get the call in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit card debt is at an all-time high, and families in Georgia are among those struggling the most.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":252162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5356,16990,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-252161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-medical-debt","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115261700304375636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}