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Collection agencies will do anything to get paid — until now.
By Joe Pye November 13, 2020
From 2000 to 2004, Steve Abraham spent his life savings caring for his dying brother.
When Abraham’s brother got sick in 2000, he left his job to take care of him. As they were the only family each other had.
Fifteen years later, Abraham was saddled with $30,000 in credit card debt and credit card companies started to call.
“The bills kept mounting up — I couldn’t handle it anymore,” Abraham said. “I was going to file for bankruptcy.”
Abraham began researching bankruptcy attorneys to find it would cost him thousands of dollars that he didn’t have.
But by luck, Abraham found another kind of attorney, one with 38 years experience with more interest in saving seniors money than selling them on debt management services or bankruptcy they don’t need.
HELPS is here
Eric Olsen is the executive director of a nonprofit law firm called HELPS (Helping Eliminate Legal Problems for Seniors and Disabled) that’s been around eight years.
