Seasonal workers get their own calculation under Medicaid’s 80-hour rule
Medicaid’s new work requirement checks compliance one calendar month at a time, a design that would automatically fail a farmworker, ski-resort employee, or holiday warehouse hire whose entire income arrives in a twelve-week burst. The interim final rule the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued June 1, 2026, builds in a separate calculation for […]
Read MoreSeasonal workers get their own calculation under Medicaid’s 80-hour rule
Medicaid’s new work requirement checks compliance one calendar month at a time, a design that would automatically fail a farmworker, ski-resort employee, or holiday warehouse hire whose entire income arrives in a twelve-week burst. The interim final rule the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued June 1, 2026, builds in a separate calculation for […]
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Credit & Debt
A court threw out the CFPB rule, so nothing federal keeps medical debt off a credit report
A federal court in Texas did not simply pause the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s medical-debt credit-reporting rule while lawyers argued…
Personal Finance
Credit & Debt
A court threw out the CFPB rule, so nothing federal keeps medical debt off a credit report
A federal court in Texas did not simply pause the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s medical-debt credit-reporting rule while lawyers argued…
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Banking & Credit Cards
Loans & Lending
Switching to the Repayment Assistance Plan costs borrowers the PSLF buyback and adds a decade to forgiveness
The Repayment Assistance Plan, the federal government’s newest income-driven option for federal student loans, took effect on July 1, 2026, becoming the default track for...
Fraud & Scams
The SEC says a fake adviser promised 20 percent a month and took $940,000 from 16 clients, several elderly
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a fraud complaint on September 3 against Omar Dario Chavez, a Southern California resident accused of running a...
Fraud & Scams
A payment processor is banned for life and will pay $12 million after handling money for shell merchants
The Federal Trade Commission filed a proposed order on September 8, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan that would...
Fraud & Scams
Medicare cut off 11 equipment suppliers over $3.4 billion in suspect billing, including claims filed after patients died
A New Jersey durable medical equipment company billed a Medicare Advantage plan 38 separate times for a beneficiary who was already dead, listing dates of...
Loans & Lending
SAVE borrowers who pick nothing get moved to the standard plan with a payment due in October or November
Federal student loan servicers began mailing 90-day notices on July 1, 2026, to more than seven million borrowers still enrolled in the SAVE repayment plan,...
Fraud & Scams
Regulators charged 38 firms with faking U.S. investment-adviser registrations to look legitimate to savers
Thirty-eight firms told the Securities and Exchange Commission they were legitimate, U.S.-registered investment advisers serving American savers, and on August 27 the agency filed civil...
Real Estate
Renting & Leasing
HUD rebuilt the utility half of its 2027 voucher rents after a price index disappeared
The formula that will set 2027 Housing Choice Voucher rent ceilings is locked in, even though local dollar figures can…
Retirement & Taxes
Denials and payment delays, not rates, drove Fairview out of UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage network
Republicans on the tax-writing committee are openly discussing lifting the Social Security payroll tax ceiling
Rick Scott’s bill to scrap the $24,480 Social Security earnings limit has sat in committee since March
The Social Security 2100 Act promises 71 million people a 2 percent raise and has never reached a floor vote
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