Iowa lawmakers want to overhaul the state's court debt system after the Iowa Judicial Branch misallocated $27.5 million over five years after a series of law changes. The Iowa Senate voted unanimously ...

A single ambulance ride. That's all it might take for a Michigan family to fall into debt they can't shake — thousands of dollars from one night in the emergency room, owed to a hospital they thought ...

The Iowa Judicial Branch misallocated $27.5 million in court debt due to coding errors following 2020 and 2021 law changes. The issue, discovered in 2020 and fixed in 2024, shorted various state funds ...

The ‘debt system’ involves using public resources to pay creditors instead of meeting the basic rights and needs of people. The relationship between creditors and debtors is strongly biased in favour ...