Collin County Meals on Wheels forced to cut services.

The Dallas Morning News reported today a heartbreaking decision by the Collin County Meals on Wheels to cut back on services for senior citizens.  The article stated that “Evening and weekend deliveries of Meals on Wheels will be eliminated and transportation services for seniors will be scaled back as the Collin County Committee on Aging copes with a …

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… ,” it seems that everyone is an expert. Your neighbor, boss, co-worker and the random stranger on the street are all ready to offer their “guaranteed” advice on how to handle debt problems and avoid bankruptcy.  However, most of them offer the same dead wrong advice that could send you straight to the poorhouse if you listen to and worse—follow their advice.  Here’s why:

Surprisingly the most common piece of advice given to debtors is that they should do everything …

… foreclosure crisis may be making American homeowners sick–literally. There was a study done on 250 Philadelphia homeowners facing foreclosure and 50 percent of them reported being depressed, while 60 percent reported skipping meals because they could not afford food and another 48 percent said that they could no longer afford to pay for their prescription medication due to their pending foreclosure.

The article said:

“The foreclosure crisis is also a health crisis. We need to do …

… high blood pressure or even heart disease because they spent a year or two eating "happy meals" because they were living off of reduced wages or unemployment insurance? They will go to the hospital; but they are going to be straddled with huge amounts of medical debt. As the number of Texans dining at fast-food restaurants increase so will the amount of Texans working just to pay off medical debt. If this trend continues expect to see more Texans facing mounting medical debt …