medical bill wage garnishment

They can do it, but in order to get a garnishment they need to get a court order. Have you been served a summons?
Try calling and making payment arangements to avoid this

My husband has a huge medical bill and it's in collections. Can I ( his wife ) be garnish for this bills if he is not working?

unpaid medical bills from 2006 totaling $331.00, can I be garnished?

They can be garnished, but it has to be by court order. have you tried to work out payment arrangements with them?

If you qualify, most hospitals have a hardship-type of program that you can get on, as far as paying the bill. My brother had to do this after his wife had a stroke. He went to the hospital in person and talked with their patient advocate, or some person to that effetct.

I paid for years and years on hospitals and doctors when my son was small with his medical problems. They were usually the ones easiest to work with.
I had a call the other day about the balance on my older sons account. I told her he was on disability and couldn't afford but ten dollars a month. She said that they had to have twenty five, or they would start collections. Then in a really soft voice, she told me that if I sent that in, they usually would not do anything. So that's what I started doing..karen

What state do you live in? In the state of PA,wage garnishements are not allowed, exceept for government loans ( Child Support, defaulted school loans, etc.)

i'm being sued for 3,000 some dollars for a hospital bill, how much can i expect to be garnished from my check if they were to get the court order, my court date is 3/19/09 if i pay some of it now will that benefit me?

my son is on short term disability through work (not work related) he has one garnishment being taken out of a paycheck of 344.00 by weekley now and another just issued he lives in va wherehey just drop the summons off. they are not physically delivered to you because he hasnt received one yet but they said it was left at his house. he has a 2year to support and can't make it. we can't come up the 1127.00 needed right now for bankruptcy is ther anything we can do right now to fix this

so basically medical bills cannot be settled in less than the full amount unlike credit cards?

can my wages be garnished at my work?

If your wages are garnished at work, what percent do they they take out of your check?

i'm currently being garnished for medical debts after the collection agency got a judgment; what happens if i quit my job?

They will wait till you are working again and then just garnish you again. The only way you can make the garnishment truly go away is to file for bankruptcy protection.

I had my check garnished in Alabama for a 650.00 medical bill that my insurnace went into effect 2 days after I aquired the bill..sucks huh, the lawyer was a real pain. The garnished my checking account first because I had made a payment with my account, then I was able to get that stopped because they allowed you to pay your past due amount and the fee. Well, times got a little rough and not even a month later ( ihad the payment to make then too and tried to make it) and they garnished my wages at 25%. The when it was paid in full no on sent me a confirmation. The began the garnish the week of Christmas Eve...how nice huh? I finally had to pitch a fit to get a paper from the lawyer AND the courthouse (I wanted to be double covered).

My husband had a heart attack and the collection agency told us to pay a 100.00 a month. I told them okay. Then they called the next day and said we had to pay a 100.00 a month for three months then they was going to start garnishment. If we offered to pay 100.00 a month can they still do a garnishment?

I have a hospital bill of $10,000 from 2003. The intrest alone is $5,000, so the total is $15,000. They send me notices that they are going to take me to court to file a judgement to garnish my wages. I was sending them check of $5.00 or $15.00 a month

What state do you live in?

I was making payments to the collection agency monthly; however after I was told by a credit agency to specifically tell them which bill I wanted to apply the money to, they sent me a letter stating that they could not honor it. Now my paycheck is being garnished for 1,800.00. Also they are sending me more bills stating that I own something else which is not of the collection sheet that they gave me.

I have the same question. I have a medical bill for $900.00 I was sending hospital $25 a month they sent to collections and then to an attorney. In the attorney's letter it states they will garnish my wages. I do not work can they garnish my husbands wages?

Likely not, unless his name is also on the account.

my dad told me once as long as you were payin something they couldnt do anything. but that is not the case anymore. if they dont get what they want they send it directly to a collector or attorney. They can only garnish you through a court order(meaning you get summoned to court) for your something that is in your name soley. so if they account is in your name only they can only garnish you. but they have to take you to court first.

I have a large sum of hospital bills dating back to Aril 2006. I have applied for disability and I want to know if the State of Virginia and North Carolina can garnish my back pay if I am approved for disability.

I was hit by a car back in July. The gentlemen did not have insurance and neither did I. Will they garnish my wages? I make very little money?

I was rushed to a cape girardue hospital when i collapsed with bleeding alsurs. The bill was $4980. since then my husband had a stroke and can no longer work and my job went south and we are living on 132.00 a week. They tried to garnish my work but said i didnt have enough money coming n and stopped the garnishment. Now they have put a levy on my checking account and my cable bill was bounced and my account is now 5,089. overdrawn . Can they do that

hi,

You had already received the court summons,so in that case you are not eligible for either consolidation or settlement,the best thing suggested would be to wait for the court for a judgment,and if the repayment plans are still not suitable,I think that bankruptcy is the last option to get rid of that!!!!!!!!!

what can i do if i cant go bankrupt until 2013 after my last divorce my x had cancer and the hospitals came after me for 50,000 on my x's hospital bill so i had to go bankrupt in 2003 to get them off me

Our daughter had surgery and we had a $2000 co-pay. We never received a bill from the hospital, but instead got a collection. They refused to accept anything but checks and would not give a receipt. We started paying them $125 a month. Within two months, we got summoned for the full amount. When we explained to the judge what was going on, we were told to continue to pay monthly. Now, it is paid in full, but the collection agency got a different judge to directly withdrawn from out account without our knowledge. We moved out of state with a job transfer and got no summons or notification. Since it was already paid, we didn't tell them we moved. Can we get out money back or stop them from doing it again?

i guess it depends on the state. I live in Ky and under Ky law you can be garnished for up to 25 percent of your disposible wages those are the wages you have after everything else comes out. I am being garnished right now and its killing me

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