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The Money Overview

Insurance & Protection

State Farm is returning $5 billion to auto customers, about $100 a policy, and the credit is applied with no claim to file

State Farm is sending $5 billion back to its auto insurance customers, the largest dividend in the mutual insurer’s 103-year history. The payout averages about $100 for each of the more than 49 million vehicles the company covers, and it reaches policyholders automatically, with no claim, form, or phone call required. For a retiree who […]

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Insurance & Protection

State Farm is returning $5 billion to auto customers, about $100 a policy, and the credit is applied with no claim to file

State Farm is sending $5 billion back to its auto insurance customers, the largest dividend in the mutual insurer’s 103-year history. The payout averages about $100 for each of the more than 49 million vehicles the company covers, and it reaches policyholders automatically, with no claim, form, or phone call required. For a retiree who […]

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Banking & Credit Cards

Loans & Lending

Buy-now-pay-later loans now show up on credit reports and can move a retiree’s score

Buy-now-pay-later plans that split a purchase into four interest-free payments spent years invisible to the credit system, appearing on no report and in no score....

Bank Accounts & Fees

Truist account holders in Georgia can claim up to $1,000 from a $240 million overdraft settlement with no proof before September 14

Georgia bank customers who were charged overdraft fees by SunTrust, the bank now known as Truist, can claim a share of a $240 million settlement,...

Fraud & Scams

Doxim data-breach victims can take a no-proof $100 payment, or up to $5,000 for documented losses, before October 13

People whose personal information was exposed in the 2023 Doxim data breach have until October 13 to claim a piece of a $5.5 million settlement,...

Fraud & Scams

A fugitive behind a $650 million real-estate Ponzi that took 2,000 investors was just added to the FBI’s most-wanted fraud list

The FBI has placed a former New Jersey real-estate executive on its newly created Most Wanted Fraudsters list, offering a reward of up to $150,000...

Fraud & Scams

Scammers can reroute your Social Security deposit online, and locking your my Social Security account stops them in about two minutes

A retiree’s Social Security payment can be redirected to a stranger’s bank account without a single forged signature, using nothing more than the agency’s own...

Fraud & Scams

A Georgia CEO got 20 years for a $380 million Ponzi scheme that drained more than 2,000 investors, and prosecutors seized his yacht and cars

Todd Burkhalter, the founder and chief executive of the Georgia advisory firm Drive Planning, was sentenced on August 14 to 20 years in federal prison,...

Retirement & Taxes