Medicaid
After Her Workers’ Comp Was Denied, This Arkansas Mom Owed $387 a Month in Prescriptions — What Medicaid Said Next Surprised Her
Roughly 29% of American adults say they have skipped filling a prescription because of cost,…
Articles by Camille Joséphine Archer
Housing
She Cosigned a Loan That Destroyed Her Savings — Then Her Rent Jumped 30% and She Was Left Scrambling at 67
Nearly 19 million renter households in the United States spend more than half their income…
VA Benefits
After Identity Theft Destroyed His Credit, This Richmond Veteran Spent 13 Months Fighting for a VA Benefits Rating Increase
Roughly 33 million Americans experienced some form of identity theft in a single recent year,…
Medicaid
Denied Workers’ Comp at 32 and $34,000 in Debt — How Roy Gutierrez Fell Into Florida’s Medicaid Gap After an On-the-Job Injury
Approximately one in seven workers’ compensation claims filed across the United States is denied at…
Housing
Behind $4,200 in Property Taxes in Richmond, VA — The Relief Program That Kept One Family’s Home Safe
The lien sale notices in Virginia don’t come with much warning. By the time a…
Student Loans
He Served His Country, Earned a Graduate Degree, and Still Couldn’t Keep the Lights On at 65 — Malik Andersen’s Fight for VA Benefits
The meeting room at the Phoenix Veterans Service Center smelled like burned coffee and old…
Student Loans
Identity Theft Wiped Her Credit and Student Loans Ate Her Savings — One Flight Attendant’s Long Road Through Federal Relief
What would it take to shake your confidence in a financial plan you spent decades…
Housing
He Earned Six Figures and Still Had No Health Insurance — What I Learned When I Met Diego Whitfield at the SSA Office
The waiting room of Tucson’s Social Security Administration office on South Sixth Avenue is the…
SNAP
She Earned Too Much for Medicaid but Too Little to Pay Her Bills — One Oklahoma Woman’s Search for Prescription Relief
Have you ever looked at your pay stub and felt, somehow, poorer than before the…
Student Loans
He Owes $67,000 in Student Loans and His Disability Benefits Don’t Come Close to Covering It
The conventional wisdom about student loan debt relief programs is that they exist to help…