A projected 3.9% raise would add about $156 a month to a $4,000 veterans’ disability check
A veteran drawing $4,000 a month in VA disability compensation would see roughly $156 more each month in 2027 if the cost-of-living adjustment lands where current projections put it: near 3.9%. That number isn’t official yet, and won’t be until the Social Security Administration calculates and announces it, typically in mid-October, based on inflation data […]
Read MoreA projected 3.9% raise would add about $156 a month to a $4,000 veterans’ disability check
A veteran drawing $4,000 a month in VA disability compensation would see roughly $156 more each month in 2027 if the cost-of-living adjustment lands where current projections put it: near 3.9%. That number isn’t official yet, and won’t be until the Social Security Administration calculates and announces it, typically in mid-October, based on inflation data […]
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Obamacare’s open enrollment opens November 1 with sharply higher premiums for 2027
The Affordable Care Act’s next open enrollment period begins November 1, and it arrives with the steepest round of proposed…
Personal Finance
Insurance & Protection
Obamacare’s open enrollment opens November 1 with sharply higher premiums for 2027
The Affordable Care Act’s next open enrollment period begins November 1, and it arrives with the steepest round of proposed…
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Bank Accounts & Fees
Banks can charge full overdraft fees again after a federal cap fell
Banks that spent 2024 bracing for a $5 federal cap on overdraft fees have instead spent the past year and a half free of any...
Credit Cards & Rewards
The credit-card average interest rate now tops 22% after the Federal Reserve’s rate increase
The average interest rate on a credit card that is actually carrying a balance has climbed to 22.15%, the highest level in recent Federal Reserve...
Bank Accounts & Fees
Five banks and three credit unions failed this year, and every insured deposit moved to a new bank
Five U.S. banks and three federally insured credit unions failed in 2026, and in every one of those eight cases the failed institution’s depositors kept...
Fraud & Scams
A Ponzi manager who spent investors’ millions on private jets drew 11 years and a $31.35 million bill
A federal judge in St. Louis sentenced a Texas investment manager to 11 years in prison this week for running a Ponzi scheme that took...
Fraud & Scams
On Q data-breach customers can file for up to $5,000, but the claim deadline is October 28
On Q Financial, an Arizona-based mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that exposed customers’...
Bank Accounts & Fees
Bank customers earn almost nothing on savings while credit-card rates sit above 21%
The average U.S. savings account paid just 0.38% annual interest in August 2026, while the average credit card rate charged to accounts actually carrying a...
Real Estate
Market Trends
Home prices are flattening as buyers wait out 7% mortgage rates
U.S. home values rose just 1.1% over the past year, according to Zillow’s July Market Report, the kind of near-flat…
Retirement & Taxes
A new $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older lands on 2025 returns, due for extension filers by October 15
A major Florida hospital is dropping two Medicare Advantage plans, cutting seniors out of network in 2027
Skipping a required retirement withdrawal after age 73 triggers a 25% penalty, reduced to 10% if corrected quickly
UnitedHealthcare is exiting 34 counties in 12 states, cutting its Medicare Advantage rolls by about a million
