Tyler Foster
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Suspend your Social Security at full retirement age and each month you wait adds about 8% a year in credits until 70
One of the few guaranteed, risk-free raises left in retirement comes from doing nothing with a Social Security benefit for a while longer. For anyone...
The Social Security Fairness Act restored bigger checks for about 3.2 million retired teachers, firefighters and public workers, with back pay to 2024
For more than four decades, a pair of formulas buried in Social Security law quietly shrank or erased the benefits of people who spent their...
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,...
UnitedHealth is cutting Medicare Advantage PPO coverage for about 600,000 members as insurers pull 2027 plans
UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest Medicare Advantage insurer, will drop plans covering roughly 600,000 members for the 2027 plan year, a retreat concentrated in the preferred-provider...
Social Security can now withhold up to half of a monthly check to recover an overpayment, but a form filed within 30 days freezes it
Social Security has revived one of its most painful collection tools, and many beneficiaries will not grasp what changed until a check arrives cut in...
Who can get their entire $202.90 Medicare Part B premium paid? Limited-income seniors who join a Medicare Savings Program
The standard Medicare Part B premium rises to $202.90 a month in 2026, a charge pulled straight from Social Security before the deposit ever lands....
Medicare’s out-of-pocket costs for weight-loss drugs still won’t count toward the $2,400 cap under the $50 pilot
Medicare’s new $50-a-month deal on weight-loss drugs comes with a catch buried in the fine print of how Part D counts spending. The flat copay...
Comcast customers can claim $50 with no proof from a $117.5 million data-breach settlement before September 14
A $117.5 million fund is now paying out to people caught up in a Comcast data breach, and the simplest route to money asks for...
Social Security averages your highest 35 years, so one more working year can replace a zero and lift your check
A Social Security retirement benefit is not built from a worker’s final salary or a lucky peak year. It is an average of the 35...
A home health aide now runs a median $35 an hour, so full-time in-home care can top a nursing home’s cost
The national median price of a home health aide reached $35 an hour in 2025, and that single figure quietly reshapes one of the biggest...
Assisted living averages about $6,200 a month, but Medicaid pays only for care, not room and board
Assisted living now runs about $6,200 a month on average nationwide, or roughly $74,400 a year, a figure that catches many families flat-footed when a...
A home’s tax assessment can climb faster than the market, leaving some owners taxed above what the house is worth
A property-tax assessment is supposed to track what a home is worth, but the two figures can drift apart, sometimes sharply. When a county’s assessed...
A reverse mortgage can turn home equity into monthly cash, but fees and a growing loan balance eat into heirs’ inheritance
A reverse mortgage can convert years of home equity into tax-free monthly cash for owners 62 and older, and it asks for no monthly repayment...
Illinois raised its senior property-tax-freeze income limit to $75,000 for 2026
Illinois has lifted the income ceiling for its senior property-tax freeze to $75,000 for the 2026 tax year, up from $65,000, opening one of the...
Homeowners 65 and older can cut property taxes with a state circuit-breaker rebate
Older homeowners in about 30 states can claw back part of their property tax bill through a relief program many have never heard of, often...
The Fed’s next move could be a hike, not a cut, so locking a CD near 4% may pay off before September 16
The Federal Reserve has held its benchmark interest rate at a range of 3.50% to 3.75% for all of 2026, and with price pressures still...