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Insurance & Protection

Jack’s Family Restaurants will pay $55 in cash or up to $4,000 in documented losses to data breach victims who file claims by Nov. 30

Social Security numbers, birth dates, home addresses and direct-deposit bank details may have been in the files that hackers reached at Jack’s Family Restaurants between...

Mortgages & Rates

People in the McLean Mortgage data breach settlement can claim $45 in cash and credit monitoring, with claims due December 10

People caught up in the October 2024 McLean Mortgage Corporation data breach can file for a flat $45 payment or for reimbursement of documented losses,...

Loans & Lending

People caught in student loan servicer ECSI’s 2023-2024 data breach have until Dec. 21 to file for a cash payment or loss reimbursement

A guest lookup for student loan tax forms on the website of Educational Computer Systems, Inc., known as ECSI, is what attackers used to pull...

Social Security & Medicare

Humana individual Medicare Advantage members who lost Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center on Oct. 1 have until Oct. 31 to switch plans for a Nov. 1 start

Humana’s individual Medicare Advantage members lost in-network access to Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, The James Cancer Center and OSU-affiliated physicians on Oct. 1,...

Social Security & Medicare

Virginia says as many as 300,000 of its 550,000 Medicaid expansion members may be at risk when federal work rules begin on January 1, 2027

Virginia’s Medicaid agency says as many as 300,000 of the roughly 550,000 adults covered through Medicaid expansion may be at risk of losing coverage when...

Social Security & Medicare

Aetna will offer at least one $0-premium Medicare Advantage plan in every county it serves in 41 states and D.C. for 2027, CVS Health says

Aetna will sell Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans in 41 states and Washington, D.C. for 2027, and at least one plan in every county where...

Social Security & Medicare

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is pulling Medicare Advantage drug plans from 177 counties for 2027 and will sell them only in Michigan and Wyoming, KFF says

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will stop selling Medicare Advantage plans with drug coverage in 177 counties for 2027, and it will offer them...

Social Security & Medicare

CVS is withdrawing its SilverScript Choice Medicare drug plan from 13 regions for 2027, so those members will need new drug coverage, KFF says

CVS Health is pulling its SilverScript Choice stand-alone Medicare drug plan out of 13 of the 34 Part D regions for 2027, according to a...

Social Security & Medicare

AARP Medicare Rx Preferred members who stay in the plan face 2027 premium increases above $75 a month in 37 states and above $100 in four, KFF finds

Members of AARP Medicare Rx Preferred, the stand-alone drug plan sold by UnitedHealthcare, face a steep premium increase in 2027 if they keep the plan...

Social Security & Medicare

Lee Health will be out of network for UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans on January 1, 2027, while UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medigap plans are unaffected

Lee Health’s hospitals and physicians will be out of network for UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage plans beginning January 1, 2027, after the Fort Myers system told...

Cost of Living

Inflation-adjusted hourly pay fell over the 12 months to August, Labor Department data show, as consumer prices rose faster than wages

Pay lost ground to prices over the past year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says real average hourly earnings, which strip out inflation, fell 0.3%...

Social Security & Medicare

Veterans at six VA medical centers can set up VA online benefit accounts at free CLEAR identity stations under a pilot that began October 7

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Oct. 7 launched a pilot that lets veterans create VA.gov accounts at identity-scanning stations inside six VA medical centers....

Social Security & Medicare

WellSense will stop offering Medicare Advantage statewide in New Hampshire for 2027, leaving members to pick new coverage by December 7 or through a special window that ends in February

WellSense Health Plan will not offer Medicare Advantage anywhere in New Hampshire in 2027, ending coverage in all 10 counties where it sold plans this...

Market Trends

California FAIR Plan dwelling rates go up an average of 29.1% for new and renewal policies from October 15, affecting more than 675,000 customers

California’s FAIR Plan, the state’s temporary insurance pool for homes that private insurers pass over, will raise dwelling rates an average of 29.1% for new...

Corporate Shakeups

Volkswagen is recalling 22,524 ID.4 electric SUVs over a battery fire risk and told owners to limit charging until a fix is ready

Volkswagen Group of America has told federal safety regulators that 22,524 electric SUVs, the 2023 through 2026 model years of the ID.4, have a high-voltage...

Mortgages & Rates

United Wholesale Mortgage will keep using FICO scores on every broker-channel credit pull, FICO said October 6, and participating lenders get FICO 10T at no added fee from FICO

United Wholesale Mortgage, which FICO describes as the nation’s number one mortgage lender, will keep using FICO Scores on all credit pulls across its broker...

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