I recently had to place my elderly mom, 84 years old, into an assisted living center due to health issues, a recent stroke, and her Alzheimer’s. We live in California. I have been dealing with the Veterans Administration, Medi-Cal, Kaiser Insurance, etc., and have actually been doing a pretty good job (I think) getting things in place for her, so that’s a relief. She has no real assets, no home, etc. Between her social security, VA benefits that is paying for her housing. However I just discovered when going through her mail, she owes about $20,000 (based on bills I am seeing in her mailbox over the last two months) in old credit card debt that I don’t know how to handle. It looks like she was making minimum payments before she was hospitalized last time but when I try to communicate with the credit card companies they will not even talk to me because I am not her. I understand that I need to get power of attorney to deal with this but in the meantime what should I do? Am I responsible for this debt? This is a lot of money to me and I want to handle the situation correctly so any advice is appreciated.
Submitted June 30, 2019 at 10:47PM by JiminyChickenpants https://ift.tt/2JggBMH
