A program launched by Gov. Katie Hobbs over a year ago has benefited 352,000 families, who are being notified their medical debt is gone.

Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced that $429 million in medical debt has been erased for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans. Undue Medical Debt, a national nonprofit, has a $10 million contract with the state to buy and cancel medical debt for Arizonans using federal COVID relief dollars.

More than 350,000 Arizonans are seeing their medical debt wiped out thanks to a state partnership with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced this week. Per KNXV, the program, funded with $10 million in federal COVID relief dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act,