When Matt, age 16, walked into his high school wood shop class seven years ago, his only goal was to finish his project. Working on the table saw, cutting soft pieces of wood to create shelves, was a potentially dangerous task, but Matt had done this often.

Unfortunately, this time was different. As Matt carefully slid the wood through the table saw, the blade began to jerk around. Before Matt could pull his hand away, three fingers were sawed right off. He went into shock almost immediately.

With no time to wait for an ambulance, the school nurse and security officer sped him to the hospital, where surgeons were on standby to sew Matt's severed fingers back on. It took two more reconstructive surgeries and five months of rehabilitation for Matt's fingers to heal.

Rather than protracted legal action, the school superintendent and Matt's parents agreed to a structured settlement for all of the pain and suffering Matt had endured. Once he became eligible, Matt would receive monthly payments, and later a large lump sum when he turned 28.

The monthly payments were helpful to Matt after he graduated from high school and started working. But when he decided that he wanted to go to college full time, it was a different story. The monthly payments would not quite support him, yet he didn't want to wait until he was 28 to get the money he needed to enter college full time.

Matt needed a financial solution that would help him accomplish his current goals, not the ones worked out when he was a 16.

Then Matt saw a TV commercial about J.G. Wentworth, in which he learned he could sell some of his future payments for a lump sum of cash today. This could give him the financial flexibility he needed to achieve his goal of going to college full time. Matt spoke with a representative and ultimately sold his future payment. With the cash, Matt was able to enroll in college and buy a car so he could go back and forth to classes each day. "Without J.G. Wentworth, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to further my education the way that I had always hoped to do!" exclaimed Matt.