Tyler Foster
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CHRISTUS Medicare Advantage members who go back to Original Medicare have until March 4, 2027 to buy a Medigap policy with no health questions, the plan tells them
CHRISTUS Health Plan is ending three Medicare Advantage plans on December 31, 2026, and members who respond by going back to Original Medicare have a...
Over 11,000 Social Security beneficiaries asked the agency to explain an overpayment, and its watchdog found 79 of 125 sampled requests were handled incorrectly
Social Security’s own inspector general found that the agency mishandled 79 of 125 sampled requests from beneficiaries who asked it to explain an overpayment. The...
About 22% of stand-alone Medicare drug plan members are in four-star contracts for 2027, up from 2%
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) says about 22% of people in stand-alone Medicare drug plans will be in contracts rated four stars...
A $750,000 settlement with retirement-plan administrator PARS would pay about 23,337 data breach victims around $19 each, automatically, with opt-outs due December 1
About 23,337 people whose names and Social Security numbers may have been taken in a March 2024 cyberattack on Public Agency Retirement Services, known as...
Americold employees and job applicants notified of two data breaches have until October 22 to claim, with up to $25,000 for documented losses
People notified of either of two Americold data breaches have until October 22, ten days from now, to file a claim in a $5,250,000 class-action...
Beef steaks averaged $12.813 a pound in the August price data
All uncooked beef steaks averaged $12.813 a pound across U.S. cities in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from $12.222 in August...
The iShares silver trust’s net asset value was $54.3652 a share on October 9 and its gold trust’s $78.6852, and both funds are down so far in 2026
The iShares Silver Trust had a net asset value of $54.3652 a share on October 9, and the iShares Gold Trust had $78.6852. Both funds...
Census publishes third-quarter rent and vacancy figures on October 28
The Census Bureau counted 7.3% of the nation’s rental homes as vacant in the second quarter, and the next reading is due at 10 a.m....
Fannie Mae’s sale of about 1,217 deeply delinquent loans takes bids October 27, and buyers must offer homeowners options that can include principal forgiveness before foreclosing, except on vacant or condemned properties
Fannie Mae is taking bids until October 27 on about 1,217 deeply delinquent mortgages carrying $259.9 million in unpaid principal, and whoever wins them takes...
Maryland’s Medicare Advantage choices fall from 63 plans to 47 in 2027
Maryland will have 47 Medicare Advantage plans on offer for 2027, down from 63 this year, according to the state fact sheet the Centers for...
People with full Medicaid and QMB pay no more than $4.90 per covered drug in 2027
Medicare.gov’s 2027 Extra Help page says people who have full Medicaid coverage and are in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary program, known as QMB, will pay...
Medicare still publishes only 2026 premiums three days before enrollment opens
Medicare’s own cost page still lists only 2026 amounts, three days before Open Enrollment for 2027 coverage begins on Thursday, October 15. The standard Part...
Hawaii’s SNAP maximum for one person falls from $506 to $496 on October 1
Hawaii’s maximum monthly SNAP benefit for a one-person household fell from $506 to $496 on October 1, the first day of federal fiscal year 2027,...
Federal law bars internet bills from SNAP’s shelter deduction, USDA tells states
Federal law now bars internet bills from the costs SNAP counts when it works out a household’s shelter deduction, and USDA told every state agency...
Existing homes sold at a 3.98 million annual pace in August with 4.9 months of supply, the most in more than ten years, and September’s figure lands Tuesday
The National Association of Realtors releases its September existing-home sales report at 10 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, October 13, the first reading since August’s annual...
State heating-aid directors count 4,355,200 Northeast households on heating oil and project they will pay about $2,627 this winter
Heating oil is projected to cost the average Northeast household about $2,627 this winter, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, the group of...