Two retired women wipe out £1.1m in medical expenses debt for hundreds of strangers – The Independent

If a slim, yellow envelope with a Rye, New York, return address lands in your mailbox this Christmas season, do not throw it out. Its not junk mail.

Some 1,300 such envelopes have been sent to New Yorkerscontaining the good news RIP Medical Debt, a New York-based nonprofit organisation, has purchased their medical debt and forgiven it.