Tyler Foster
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Qualifying for both Medicare and Medicaid can cover nearly all out-of-pocket costs
For older Americans on a fixed income, the gap between what Medicare covers and what a patient pays can run into thousands of dollars a...
Turning 65 opens a six-month window to buy any Medigap policy without health questions
The single most valuable window in Medicare for a person turning 65 is one that closes quietly and never reopens on the same terms. For...
A widow who waits until survivor full retirement age can collect 100% of a late spouse’s check
Among the many timing rules in Social Security, one is unusually generous and unusually easy to forfeit. A surviving spouse who waits until reaching survivor...
Several states let homeowners 65 and older defer property taxes until sale
For a homeowner living on a fixed income, a rising property-tax bill can be the expense that forces a sale of the family home. Several...
Some Medicare Advantage plans return part of your Part B premium as a give-back
A small but real perk buried inside some Medicare Advantage plans can put money back in a retiree’s pocket every month: the Part B give-back....
Once a Medicare drug plan’s yearly out-of-pocket limit is reached, covered prescriptions cost nothing more that year
Medicare’s Part D drug benefit now carries a hard ceiling on what a member pays out of pocket in a year, and once that limit...
A dropped Medicare Advantage plan opens a special enrollment window from December 8 through the end of February
When a Medicare Advantage plan is discontinued for 2027, the members it drops are not left to the ordinary enrollment calendar. Medicare grants them a...
A federal audit found thousands of widows lost millions by claiming Social Security survivor benefits too early
A watchdog inside Social Security itself has documented a costly pattern: surviving spouses, most of them widows, who claimed benefits earlier than they had to...
Social Security is letting more people apply online as it clears a disability backlog
Social Security has spent much of the past year trying to fix one of the most common complaints about the agency: the wait. According to...
Without a fix, Social Security could pay only about 78% of benefits in the 2030s, a roughly 22% cut
A single figure from Social Security’s own actuaries has become the most-cited number in retirement planning: about 78 percent. That is the share of scheduled...
Repeal of a decades-old penalty restored bigger Social Security checks for millions of retired teachers, police and firefighters
For more than four decades, two provisions buried in Social Security law quietly shrank the retirement checks of people who spent their careers teaching, policing...
The FTC shut down a credit-repair network that took about $200 million and filed fake identity-theft reports in customers’ names
Federal regulators have moved to shut down a sprawling credit-repair operation that, they say, collected about $200 million from customers while quietly doing something that...
The national gas price near $4.14 a gallon set a late-summer record
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline sat near $4.14 in the third week of August 2026, a level that price trackers...
A Missouri woman was convicted of taking $66,000 of her mother’s Social Security while her mother lived overseas with dementia
A federal jury in Missouri has convicted a 50-year-old woman of stealing roughly $66,000 that belonged to her own mother, money drawn from the mother’s...
A new 50% tariff on Canadian dairy, alcohol and vehicles took effect this week, adding to costs that reach shoppers
A new import tax took effect this week that adds an extra 50% duty on three categories of Canadian goods: dairy products, alcoholic beverages, and...
Medicare’s next drug deal cuts prices on 15 more medicines and, for the first time, reaches doctor-administered drugs
Medicare’s second round of drug-price negotiations will set lower prices on 15 additional medications beginning January 1, 2027, and for the first time the program...
