Tyler Foster
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GoodRx users who used its app before April 2024 can file by December 29
People who used GoodRx before April 2024 have until December 29, 2026, to file a claim in a $32 million privacy settlement. GoodRx Holdings and...
About 638,000 people on Medicare in 193 counties will have no Medicare Advantage drug plan open to general enrollment in 2027, including all of Alaska, KFF finds
KFF counts 193 counties where no Medicare Advantage drug plan will be open to general enrollment in 2027. About 638,000 people on Medicare live in...
SNAP benefits for New Mexico adults 18 to 64 may stop after three missed months without 80 work or activity hours, except in Luna County and four pueblos
New Mexico adults 18 to 64 who get SNAP can lose the benefit after three missed months if they do not log 80 hours a...
Social Security’s watchdog warns scammers posing as the agency cite fake my Social Security account and direct deposit problems and mail fake Supreme Court letters
The Social Security Administration’s inspector general is warning that scammers posing as the agency keep pointing to made-up problems with a Social Security online account...
Kettering Health’s 14 Dayton-area medical centers go out of network for Anthem Medicare Advantage members on January 1, 2027, after the system declined to renew
Kettering Health, the Dayton-based nonprofit system with 14 medical centers across western Ohio, will not renew its contract with Anthem’s Medicare Advantage plans, and the...
SNAP work rules now cover about 18,000 more Minnesotans a month through age 64, after waived areas shrank from 17 counties and nine Tribal Nations to three, the state says
Minnesota’s SNAP work rules now reach about 18,000 more adults in an average month, because the federal 2025 reconciliation law raised the upper age from...
Providence Health Assurance is discontinuing all of its Medicare Supplement plans, and members’ current coverage ends March 31, 2027
Providence Health Assurance says it is discontinuing all of its Medicare Supplement plans, and members’ current coverage runs only through March 31, 2027. Anyone who...
SNAP benefits for about 440,000 Minnesotans are expected to run about $5 a month lower on average than they would otherwise, starting October 1, 2027, the state says
Minnesota expects about 440,000 people who receive SNAP to get about $5 a month less on average in 2027 than they would have without a...
About 417,000 Arizona AHCCCS adults ages 19 to 64 must show 80 hours a month of approved activity or qualifying income starting January 1, 2027, or risk losing Medicaid
Arizona adults in Medicaid’s expansion group will have to prove 80 hours a month of approved activity, or at least $580 in monthly income, to...
Social Security, SSI, VA and federal retirement deposits from the past two months must be shielded automatically when a creditor garnishes a bank account
When a creditor with a court order garnishes a bank account, the bank must set aside deposits from Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans Affairs...
Social Security now runs an electronic search of SSI applicants’ bank accounts to find ones they never reported, and no one can get SSI without allowing it
Social Security now runs an electronic search of the bank accounts of people applying for Supplemental Security Income, looking for accounts the applicant never mentioned....
Premier Martial Arts’ franchisor and its former sales firm agreed to pay $1.85 million to settle FTC charges over claims that studios could run on under 15 hours a week
Premier Franchising Group, the franchisor of Premier Martial Arts, and its former franchise sales organization, Franchise Fastlane, have agreed to pay a combined $1.85 million...
Florida tenants of Concord Management from 2021 to 2025 may receive automatic checks from a $1.85 million settlement, with a final hearing set for December 3
Former residents of Florida apartments managed by Concord Management between April 3, 2021 and April 3, 2025 may receive settlement checks without filing anything. A...
Silver traded near $56.71 an ounce early Thursday, up from $53.04 a year earlier
Silver cost $56.71 an ounce at 7:15 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 15. A year earlier the same quote was $53.04, so the metal...
Gold traded near $4,147 an ounce Thursday morning, below its year-ago price of $4,187
Gold was priced at $4,147 an ounce at 9:10 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 15. That is $40 below the $4,187 an ounce quoted...
Freddie Mac’s average 30-year mortgage rate held unchanged in the week of October 15
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage held at 7.40% in the week of October 15, unchanged from the week before, Freddie Mac reported....