Tyler Foster
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Ohio State and Valley Health leave Medicare Advantage networks on October 1, and members lose in-network hospital care
Two Medicare Advantage networks fracture on the same date next week, and neither involves a plan folding or leaving the market. Ohio State University’s Wexner...
Trump opened a 300,000-ton duty-free beef window to push down ground beef prices now running about 19% higher
President Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 opening a temporary, 300,000-metric-ton duty-free window for imported lean beef trimmings, aiming to relieve a ground beef...
The “no tax on Social Security” promise turned out to be only a temporary $6,000 senior deduction that fades above $75,000
The federal law that took effect in 2025 did not eliminate income taxes on Social Security benefits, despite a campaign pledge that promised exactly that....
The Treasury is phasing out paper federal benefit checks, moving the last recipients to direct deposit or a debit card
The federal government has stopped issuing new paper checks for Social Security and most other federal benefit payments, and Treasury is now working to move...
New Trump tariffs on Canadian goods took effect this month, and the costs are reaching store shelves
A 50% tariff on a broad slate of Canadian goods took effect Aug. 22, reaching supermarket dairy cases, liquor store shelves and furniture showrooms nationwide...
Federal prosecutors charged Jay Goswami with running a $7.5 million cash-and-gold scheme that drained nine older victims
Federal prosecutors in Buffalo have charged Jay Sunilbharthi Goswami, 21, with running a cash-and-gold fraud scheme that authorities say drained more than $7.5 million from...
AT&T’s proposed $177 million data-breach settlement would cover millions of current and former customers, pending court approval
AT&T’s proposed $177 million settlement over two 2024 data breaches remains stuck awaiting a federal judge’s approval more than seven months after the fairness hearing...
A federal appeals court upheld Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices, keeping January’s lower prices on 15 drugs on track
A federal appeals court has again rejected the pharmaceutical industry’s legal challenge to Medicare’s drug-price negotiation program, keeping the government on track to roll out...
Social Security is streamlining SSI so applications and reviews move faster with fewer errors
The Social Security Administration transmitted its 2026 Annual Report on the Supplemental Security Income program to the President and Congress on July 24, highlighting a...
A Flo Health privacy settlement of $59.5 million is open to app users through October 15
Flo Health, Google and Flurry have agreed to a combined $59.5 million settlement over claims that the popular period and ovulation tracking app shared users’...
Lands’ End shoppers can claim up to $60 in a settlement before the October 22 deadline
Lands’ End has agreed to settle claims over a December 2024 data breach that exposed a wider set of identity documents than most retail hacks...
Diesel prices hit record August highs, raising the cost of nearly everything trucked to store shelves
The national average price of on-highway diesel reached $5.652 a gallon for the week of August 24, according to the Energy Information Administration, its sixth...
Airfare, utilities and medical care are climbing fast enough to eat part of this year’s Social Security raise
The 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment that raised Social Security checks starting in January 2026 was calculated using inflation data from a full year earlier, and several...
A reverse mortgage now gives a surviving spouse who wasn’t on the loan more protection to stay in the home
A federal rule change has widened protection for a surviving spouse left off a reverse mortgage, letting that spouse stay in the home for life...
An HSA can pay Medicare premiums tax-free, but never a Medigap policy
A retiree who assumes every Medicare-related premium can be paid tax-free out of a Health Savings Account is only half right, and the half that’s...
Generic drugmakers will pay states $96 million over price-fixing; buyers can register now
Forty-eight states and territories have settled with generic drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals for $29.6 million over allegations it conspired with competitors to inflate generic drug prices,...
