Tyler Foster
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Utility rate hikes now reach 116 million electric customers across 49 states, adding $40 or more a month in some
An advocacy-run tracker of utility filings now counts more than 116 million electric customers facing higher or proposed-higher power bills, spread across 49 states and...
Trump signed an order clearing 401(k) plans to hold private equity and crypto, raising the stakes for savers
A single executive order has redrawn the boundaries of what can sit inside the retirement account most working Americans rely on. In August 2025, President...
Kroger is closing about 60 stores across roughly 15 states, taking their in-store pharmacy counters with them
Kroger is closing about 60 supermarkets by the end of 2026, and the roughly 39 already shuttered stretch across some 15 states. The nation’s largest...
Walgreens is closing about 100 stores and cutting 628 jobs, moving prescriptions to nearby pharmacies
Walgreens is closing roughly 100 stores and eliminating 628 corporate and warehouse jobs this year, the latest contraction at a chain that has spent two...
Original Medicare is testing prior authorization for some outpatient procedures in six states
A long-standing feature of Original Medicare is quietly being tested away in six states. Traditional fee-for-service Medicare has historically let a beneficiary and doctor schedule...
A new 2027 rule strips Medicare sales safeguards, so seniors face harder sales pitches before Open Enrollment
The rules that govern how Medicare Advantage plans are sold just got looser, and the change lands right before the season when seniors decide their...
CMS set the 2027 Part D base premium at $41.33, the largest increase the law allows
Medicare put a hard number on next year’s drug-plan math, and it moved as far up as the statute permits. On July 28, 2026, the...
Fifteen Medicare drugs get 2027 price cuts of 38% to 85%, from diabetes to cancer treatments
Medicare’s second negotiation round did more than lower one blockbuster drug. It reset the price of 15 medicines at once, with cuts running from 38...
Sentara’s termination notice to Anthem could push up to 380,000 Virginians out of network on January 1
Nearly 380,000 Virginians could wake up on January 1 to find their doctors and hospitals suddenly out of network, after Sentara Health sent Anthem Blue...
Presbyterian Health Plan is dropping most Medicare Advantage plans for 2027, pushing about 30,000 members to switch
Roughly 30,000 New Mexico retirees are about to lose the Medicare Advantage coverage they have now, after Presbyterian Health Plan decided to walk away from...
Filing Form SSA-44 can erase a Medicare IRMAA surcharge after retirement drops your income
A retiree who stops working can pay a Medicare surcharge for two years on income no longer being earned, sometimes hundreds of dollars a month...
The Qualified Medicare Beneficiary program can pay your entire Part B premium and block providers from billing you
A little-used corner of Medicaid can cover a Medicare enrollee’s entire Part B premium, roughly $2,200 a year at the standard rate, and then go...
A dropped Medicare Advantage plan triggers a 63-day guaranteed right to buy any Medigap policy with no health questions
A wave of Medicare Advantage plans is disappearing for 2027, and the retirees getting non-renewal letters are about to run into one of Medicare’s most...
A widow can claim a survivor benefit first and switch to her own larger Social Security later
A widow who qualifies for Social Security on both her late husband’s record and her own is not forced to pick one and live with...
Ozempic’s Medicare price drops from $959 to $274 a month in 2027 under the new drug deal
Medicare’s second round of drug-price negotiations produced its headline number, and it belongs to the diabetes drug seniors ask about most. Beginning in 2027, the...
Full retirement age hits 67 in 2026, and claiming at 62 now locks in a check about 30% smaller for life
The last stair in a decades-long climb has now been reached. For everyone born in 1960 or later, Social Security’s full retirement age stands at...
