A close friend of mine is getting divorced and I'm trying to help her untangle the substantial mess.
She says she has a lot of old medical bills and they're "so old they're not worth paying." My first instinct was to think that's not how it works and tell her to call up her creditors and offer them anything, even $5 a month, but then I remembered reading in posts here about how you should never pay on a really old bill because that ... "renews" or "resets" the debt ... or something? It's a very vague memory, so please forgive me, but I don't want to steer her wrong. She needs every chance she can get right now. I've googled this but I must not be using the right phrases because I keep getting totally unrelated results. Can someone explain?
She says the debts are about four years old and she hasn't paid a penny on them in years.
Also, please bear with me if I don't have a lot of information—she seems to go through periods of disclosure and then feeling too ashamed to give all the details. I'm trying to get information without stressing her out.
Submitted November 11, 2018 at 04:58PM by CashRabbit https://ift.tt/2RJ3wxS
