Tyler Foster
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KYB Americas data-breach victims can claim a no-proof $75 payment, or up to $5,000 with documentation, by August 26
A class-action settlement over a 2025 data breach at auto-parts maker KYB Americas is paying eligible people a flat $75 with no proof required, or...
A grandparent scam can cost a retiree tens of thousands in a single call, and the caller often knows the grandchild’s name
The call usually opens with a sob and a familiar voice: a grandchild in a car crash, an arrest overseas, a medical emergency that demands...
Port-out scammers hijack your phone number to break into your bank account
Most account takeovers require a stolen password, but a growing category of theft skips that step entirely by stealing something harder to change: the victim’s...
Zelle’s member banks now reimburse customers tricked into wiring money to a scammer posing as their own bank
For years, one of the most punishing banking scams left its victims with almost no way to recover a cent: money sent through a payment...
About 2 million seniors skip $11.4 billion in Medicare Extra Help each year
Roughly 2 million older Americans who qualify for Medicare’s most valuable prescription-drug subsidy never sign up for it, leaving an estimated $11.4 billion in assistance...
Grocery prices are up about 25% since 2019, and electricity has climbed 4% in just the past year
The official inflation rate has cooled, yet the checkout receipt tells a harsher story. Consumer prices rose 3.5% over the year ended June 2026, a...
Fifteen more prescription drugs face Medicare price cuts in 2028, and for the first time the list includes doctor-administered Part B medicines
Medicare took its price-negotiation program into new territory this year, naming 15 more prescription drugs whose costs the government will bargain down for 2028 and,...
Who can get their entire $202.90 Medicare Part B premium paid? Limited-income seniors enrolled in a Medicare Savings Program
The standard Medicare Part B premium climbed to $202.90 a month in 2026, an increase of nearly $18 that lands on every enrollee’s Social Security...
Social Security’s 50% overpayment clawback still spares SSI recipients at 10%
When the Social Security Administration decides it paid someone too much, it can now recover the money by withholding half of that person’s monthly benefit,...
A divorced spouse can claim on an ex’s Social Security at 62 if the marriage lasted 10 years and they haven’t remarried
A divorce does not erase a person’s claim to Social Security built on a former spouse’s earnings record. As long as the marriage lasted at...
A dropped Medicare Advantage plan triggers a guaranteed right to buy any Medigap policy
Losing a Medicare Advantage plan through no choice of one’s own opens a door that is normally hard to walk through: the right to buy...
Waiting until survivor full retirement age unlocks a late spouse’s entire Social Security check
A surviving spouse who claims Social Security survivor benefits before reaching full retirement age gives up a permanent slice of the late partner’s check —...
Next year’s Social Security raise is tracking near 3.8%, enough to push the average spousal check past $1,000 for the first time
The projected 2027 cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security is holding near 3.8 percent, according to the latest independent forecast, and that estimate comes attached to...
A Mexican cartel scammed more than 6,000 older Americans out of $400 million in a timeshare scheme, and five bosses now face U.S. charges
Federal prosecutors have unsealed charges against five senior leaders of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel, tying the group to a timeshare fraud operation that authorities...
Reverse-mortgage borrowers must keep paying property taxes and insurance or risk losing the home
A reverse mortgage can turn home equity into cash for a retiree without a monthly loan payment, but that convenience hides an obligation that catches...
A free credit report from all three bureaus is now available weekly at AnnualCreditReport.com
Checking a credit report used to be a once-a-year ritual for most consumers, but the rules have quietly changed in a way that strengthens one...