ACA health insurance premiums jumped 26% in 2026 — the largest increase since 2018 — driven partly by Ozempic costs
When open enrollment ended earlier this year, 23.1 million Americans had signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, near the all-time record. Many of them are now opening monthly bills that look nothing like last year’s. A 40-year-old earning $50,000 who bought a benchmark silver plan in 2025 may have paid […]
Read MoreACA health insurance premiums jumped 26% in 2026 — the largest increase since 2018 — driven partly by Ozempic costs
When open enrollment ended earlier this year, 23.1 million Americans had signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, near the all-time record. Many of them are now opening monthly bills that look nothing like last year’s. A 40-year-old earning $50,000 who bought a benchmark silver plan in 2025 may have paid […]
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ACA health insurance premiums jumped 26% in 2026 — the largest increase since 2018 — driven partly by Ozempic costs
When open enrollment ended earlier this year, 23.1 million Americans had signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care…
Personal Finance
Insurance & Protection
ACA health insurance premiums jumped 26% in 2026 — the largest increase since 2018 — driven partly by Ozempic costs
When open enrollment ended earlier this year, 23.1 million Americans had signed up for health coverage through the Affordable Care…
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Loans & Lending
The Class of 2026 is graduating into the worst student loan landscape in a decade — fewer options, stricter rules, and no more SAVE plan
Run the numbers on a $35,000 federal student loan balance through the Federal Student Aid Loan Simulator, and the gap is stark. Under the SAVE...
Fraud & Scams
A personal assistant forged checks for 7 years to steal $10 million from a retired Wall Street banker — and spent it at Gucci and Cartier
Catalina Corona was hired to make life easier for an elderly couple in New York. Multiple news outlets, including the New York Post, have described...
Fraud & Scams
Americans lost a record $15.9 billion to scams in 2025 — and half of it was crypto fraud
A retired teacher in Ohio watches $340,000 vanish into a fake crypto trading platform. A young professional in Texas loses $50,000 after a months-long romance...
Loans & Lending
The SAVE student loan plan is officially dead — 7.5 million borrowers have until October to pick a new repayment plan
Millions of federal student loan borrowers who once had some of the lowest monthly payments available are now navigating a repayment system that looks very...
Fraud & Scams
AI can now clone your voice from 3 seconds of audio — the FBI says deepfake financial scams are surging in 2026
The voice on the phone belongs to your daughter. At least, that is what your brain tells you. She says she has been in a...
Credit Cards & Rewards
Credit card annual fees are soaring past $800 — and people keep paying them even as perks shrink
The annual fee on the American Express Platinum Card has climbed three times since 2019, landing at $695 in 2023. Each time, cardholders complained online,...
Real Estate
Market Trends
Sun Belt home prices are collapsing while Rust Belt prices soar — the 2026 housing market nobody predicted
For years, the playbook was simple: buy in the Sun Belt, watch your equity grow, and pity anyone stuck in…
Retirement & Taxes
The IRS enforcement workforce is about to shrink below 30,000 — fewer than in Trump’s first term — even as AI audits expand
No, your tax refund wasn’t supposed to be $1,000 bigger — here’s what actually happened with the OBBB tax breaks
53 million Americans used Trump’s new tax breaks this season — here’s how much the average refund jumped
The IRS just launched a new whistleblower alert — and you could earn up to 30% of what tax fraudsters owe
Senate Finance probes $370M tax break Trump IRS gave Cheniere Energy for classifying LNG tankers as “motorboats”
2027 Social Security COLA projections are split — will the “Trump Bump” from war inflation boost your check?
Did you miss the overtime or senior deduction? How to file an amended return and claim what you’re owed
53 million Americans claimed new OBBB deductions this tax season — here’s how much extra they’re getting back