Several states let homeowners 65 and older defer property taxes until sale
For a homeowner living on a fixed income, a rising property-tax bill can be the expense that forces a sale of the family home. Several states offer a rarely publicized way out: a program that lets qualifying homeowners 65 and older defer their property taxes entirely, postponing the bill until the house is sold, transferred, […]
Read MoreSeveral states let homeowners 65 and older defer property taxes until sale
For a homeowner living on a fixed income, a rising property-tax bill can be the expense that forces a sale of the family home. Several states offer a rarely publicized way out: a program that lets qualifying homeowners 65 and older defer their property taxes entirely, postponing the bill until the house is sold, transferred, […]
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A Hartford insurance unit would mail $11 million in refund checks for a premium-tax overcharge, with no claim to file
A former Hartford life-insurance business has agreed to an $11 million settlement over premium-tax charges it allegedly miscalculated, and eligible…
Personal Finance
Insurance & Protection
A Hartford insurance unit would mail $11 million in refund checks for a premium-tax overcharge, with no claim to file
A former Hartford life-insurance business has agreed to an $11 million settlement over premium-tax charges it allegedly miscalculated, and eligible…
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Banking & Credit Cards
Fraud & Scams
The FTC shut down a credit-repair network that took about $200 million and filed fake identity-theft reports in customers’ names
Federal regulators have moved to shut down a sprawling credit-repair operation that, they say, collected about $200 million from customers while quietly doing something that...
Fraud & Scams
A Missouri woman was convicted of taking $66,000 of her mother’s Social Security while her mother lived overseas with dementia
A federal jury in Missouri has convicted a 50-year-old woman of stealing roughly $66,000 that belonged to her own mother, money drawn from the mother’s...
Fraud & Scams
Port-out scammers steal your phone number to intercept the codes guarding your bank
A bank account can be drained without a password ever being guessed, because the weakest link is often a phone number rather than a login....
Fraud & Scams
Bank of America customers hit by the MOVEit data breach can claim up to $100 before October 8
Roughly 200,000 Bank of America customers whose personal information was exposed in the 2023 MOVEit hack now have a way to collect a flat cash...
Fraud & Scams
Chantix users can file a no-document claim from Pfizer’s $44 million settlement before September 14
Anyone who bought the prescription stop-smoking drug Chantix over a roughly six-year stretch has until September 14 to claim a slice of a $44 million...
Bank Accounts & Fees
The FDIC insures $250,000 per depositor, and adding beneficiaries can multiply that after four banks failed in 2026
Four U.S. banks have failed so far in 2026, a reminder that the $250,000 federal insurance limit is the line between a fully protected deposit...
Real Estate
Market Trends
Almost anyone who bought a home through an agent can claim part of a $120 million commission settlement before October 27
The National Association of Realtors and a group of large brokerages have agreed to pay $120,334,500 to settle claims that…
Retirement & Taxes
Medicaid’s five-year look-back can delay nursing-home coverage over money or property given away recently
Once a Medicare drug plan’s yearly out-of-pocket limit is reached, covered prescriptions cost nothing more that year
A dropped Medicare Advantage plan opens a special enrollment window from December 8 through the end of February
A federal audit found thousands of widows lost millions by claiming Social Security survivor benefits too early
Repeal of a decades-old penalty restored bigger Social Security checks for millions of retired teachers, police and firefighters
A proposed IRS rule would require proof of citizenship to collect the refundable part of the child tax credit
Medicare’s next drug deal cuts prices on 15 more medicines and, for the first time, reaches doctor-administered drugs
Ignore the letter dropping your Medicare Advantage plan for 2027 and you fall back to Original Medicare with no drug coverage
Filing Form W-4V lets you have federal tax withheld from Social Security and avoid a surprise April bill
A free national search can turn up a lost pension from an employer that merged or shut down decades ago
Medicare’s old Part D “donut hole” coverage gap is gone, so drug costs no longer spike partway through the year