Health Care Expenses are Hiding in Your Grocery Cart

For some people, getting your health care budget right may be the key to the success of your bankruptcy. Your health care budget can determine your payment in a Chapter 13 plan; your health care budget can control whether you pass the Chapter 7 means test.

Grocery cart

You have means test health care expenses hiding in your grocery cart

Means Test Health Care Expenses are Hiding in Your Grocery Cart

That’s why I’m reminding you to think about your grocery cart when you calculate your health care budget.

Here are some things you might buy at Giant or Safeway that count as health care.

  • Band Aids, Icy Hot
  • Neosporan
  • Listerine, dental floss
  • Vitamins
  • Herbal Supplements
  • Laxatives
  • Arch support
  • Aspirin, Tylenol, pain relievers
  • Midol, Monistat, AZO
  • Acne meds
  • Fiber
  • Sleep aids
  • Dandruff shampoo
  • Nutrition supplements
  • Cough syrup
  • Eye drops, contacts cleaning solution
  • Styptic pencil

Don’t Just Think Prescriptions and Doctor Deductables

Identifying a few hundred dollars a year in grocery cart health care could help me, as your bankruptcy lawyer, save you thousands of dollars.

Meet Vanessa, Lexria & Jubilee Key

Meet Vanessa, my Paralegal

Vanessa Hill, bankruptcy paralegal, has worked for me for twenty years. She will get your credit report (when you give us permission) and she will set up our next meeting.

Meet Lexria, My Virtual File Clerk

Lexria, is my virtual file clerk. She can’t answer legal questions, but she is really good at getting the necessary information and bankruptcy required documents.
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Jubilee Key is my document manager. She will send you our final papers for approval after we go over them, and then send them to the court. But her first job is to get your permission, so Vanessa can get your credit report. So look for an email from Jubilee.