Medicare will now offer certain GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for $50 a month through 2027 under a new federal program.
Millions of Medicare Part D enrollees can now fill prescriptions for certain GLP-1 weight-loss medications at a flat $50 copay per month, a price point that would have been unthinkable even a year ago for drugs whose retail costs often exceed $1,000. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set a July 1, 2026, […]
Read MoreMedicare will now offer certain GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for $50 a month through 2027 under a new federal program.
Millions of Medicare Part D enrollees can now fill prescriptions for certain GLP-1 weight-loss medications at a flat $50 copay per month, a price point that would have been unthinkable even a year ago for drugs whose retail costs often exceed $1,000. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set a July 1, 2026, […]
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A shared nursing-home room now runs about $9,581 a month, and Medicaid steps in only after savings fall below $2,000.
Families with an aging parent who needs round-the-clock care face a brutal math problem. A shared nursing-home room now runs…
Personal Finance
Insurance & Protection
A shared nursing-home room now runs about $9,581 a month, and Medicaid steps in only after savings fall below $2,000.
Families with an aging parent who needs round-the-clock care face a brutal math problem. A shared nursing-home room now runs…
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Fraud & Scams
The FTC is mailing refund checks to 1,821 homeowners caught in a fake mortgage-relief scheme, and they must cash them within 90 days.
The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 1,821 refund checks totaling more than $2.8 million to homeowners who paid for mortgage-relief services that never delivered. The...
Fraud & Scams
Chocolate coins swapped for $700,000 in gold foiled a scam on a 79-year-old woman, and the courier who came to collect was arrested.
A 79-year-old woman in Kent County, Michigan, turned the tables on scammers by handing a courier a box of chocolate coins instead of $700,000 worth...
Bank Accounts & Fees
SunTrust customers charged old overdraft fees can claim $5 to $1,000 from a $240 million settlement by September 14.
Former SunTrust Bank customers who were charged overdraft fees under disputed practices can now file claims for payments ranging from $5 to $1,000 from a...
Fraud & Scams
Five people were sentenced for helping overseas scammers drain elderly victims across ten states.
Five people who worked as local couriers and handlers for an overseas fraud ring were sentenced in the Eastern District of Missouri after pleading guilty...
Fraud & Scams
Banks now reimburse Zelle users for certain impostor scams, and a new clawback can pull the stolen money back.
Banks that operate the Zelle payment network are now required to reimburse customers tricked by certain impostor scams, and a new clawback mechanism lets participating...
Fraud & Scams
A California retiree handed over $1.3 million in Bitcoin-ATM deposits and gold bars to a $149 million fraud ring, and one courier now faces federal charges.
A 70-year-old retiree in Carlsbad, California, lost roughly $1.39 million after scammers directed the victim to deposit approximately $55,700 into Bitcoin ATMs and wire another...
Real Estate
Market Trends
A typical existing home sold for a record $440,600 in June, even as slower sales pointed to a cooling market
American homebuyers paid more for a typical existing home in June than at any prior point on record, even as…
Retirement & Taxes
Medicare will now offer certain GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for $50 a month through 2027 under a new federal program.
$3,938.58 a month now goes to a veteran rated 100% disabled with no dependents, tax-free, under 2026 VA rates.
Senate Democrats have reintroduced a plan to add $200 a month to Social Security and SSI checks, but Congress must still act.
A surviving divorced spouse can still collect Social Security on an ex who has died, if the marriage lasted at least 10 years.
A federal audit found thousands of widows lose money each year by claiming Social Security survivor benefits too early.
Scammers can reroute your Social Security deposit online, and locking your my Social Security account blocks them in about two minutes.
The state-and-local tax deduction cap jumped to $40,000, letting homeowners in high-tax states write off far more than the old $10,000.
When a Medicare Advantage plan drops you for 2027, you gain a guaranteed right to buy any Medigap policy.
Who owes Medicare’s high-income surcharge in 2027? Retirees whose 2025 income topped about $111,000.
Full retirement age has finished its climb to 67, and claiming Social Security at 62 now locks in a check about 30% smaller for life.
A surviving spouse can collect 100% of a late husband or wife’s Social Security by waiting until survivor full retirement age.
Social Security’s 2.8% raise added about $56 a month in 2026, but higher Medicare premiums claw part of it back.
After a senior dies, Medicaid can bill the estate for nursing-home care it paid, though the family home is sometimes shielded.
Social Security will no longer let you switch your direct deposit by phone, a fraud block you now clear online or in person.