Tyler Foster
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Claiming Social Security early forces you to take spousal benefits at the same time
A common piece of Social Security folklore holds that a married person can claim a small retirement check early, let it run for years, and...
A spouse caring for a worker’s young child can draw Social Security at any age
Most people assume Social Security spousal benefits are locked behind an age gate, available only once a husband or wife reaches the early-claiming floor of...
A Pennsylvania man was indicted for draining over $1 million from one elderly victim
A federal grand jury has accused a Pennsylvania man of turning an elderly investor’s life savings into a commercial property deed in his own name....
Credit-union customers exposed in the Doxim data breach can claim $100, or up to $5,000, by October 13
A settlement notice reaching bank and credit-union customers this summer asks recipients to make a decision: accept a quick, modest cash payment, or take the...
Walgreens is closing 1,200 stores, and seniors’ prescriptions move automatically to a nearby pharmacy
Older customers who fill regular medications at Walgreens face a practical question buried inside the chain’s long retrenchment: what happens to a prescription when the...
A subsidy that capped Medicare drug-plan premiums ends in 2027, raising costs for about half of enrollees
A behind-the-scenes federal payment has quietly held down what many Medicare beneficiaries pay for stand-alone drug coverage over the past two years. That support is...
Medicare’s Extra Help erases the Part D deductible and caps brand-drug copays at $12.65 for low-income seniors
A retiree on a fixed income can face a stark choice at the pharmacy counter when a prescription’s price climbs past what the monthly budget...
Medicare Advantage insurers are cutting 2027 plans; a fall letter says if yours survives
Millions of older Americans open a plain envelope from their insurer each fall and set it aside without a second look. For a growing number...
An 86-year-old lost $700,000 to a scam and is suing Bank of America and Merrill Lynch to recover it
A lawsuit moving through Manhattan’s courts asks whether a brokerage and its banks should have stopped an elderly customer from wiring away nearly everything she...
On FHA reverse mortgages with case numbers assigned on or after August 4, 2014, a non-borrowing spouse must be listed correctly to stay after the borrower dies
A spouse can live in a reverse-mortgaged home for years without being a borrower, then face the loan becoming due when the borrowing spouse dies....
Buy-now-pay-later loans are starting to appear on credit reports, and they can move a retiree’s score
Buy-now-pay-later borrowing is moving from the checkout screen into the credit system. Some providers now furnish account data to national credit bureaus, and FICO has...
The FTC sent over a million Brigit customer refunds by check and PayPal in May 2026
The Federal Trade Commission made a second Brigit refund distribution in May 2026, sending 1,052,038 payments totaling more than $6.8 million. The money went by...
American Consumer Credit Counseling clients can claim up to $3,580 from a data-breach settlement by September 16
People whose information was exposed in American Consumer Credit Counseling’s January 2025 email-account breach can seek as much as $3,580 under a proposed settlement, but...
Crimson Wine Group customers hit by a cyberattack can claim up to $5,000 for losses before September 1
Crimson Wine Group customers whose private information was accessed in a June 2024 cyberattack can seek as much as $5,000 for documented losses under a...
An Equinox data-breach settlement offers about $100 or up to $5,000 for documented losses to claimants who file by October 23
People notified that their information was involved in an Equinox Inc. data incident have an open settlement claim window, but no cash arrives automatically. The...
Onsite Mammography patients can claim up to $5,000 from a data-breach settlement before the August 11 deadline
Patients notified that their information was involved in Onsite Mammography’s October 2024 email-account breach have until August 11, 2026, to claim settlement benefits. The largest...