Tyler Foster
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Insurers want to raise Obamacare premiums another 14% for 2027 after expired subsidies already drove bills up 20%
Health insurers selling Affordable Care Act marketplace plans are asking state regulators to approve a median premium increase of 14% for 2027, according to preliminary...
A financial adviser who pushed 2,000 clients to raid retirement accounts drew the maximum 20 years for a $380 million Ponzi scheme
A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced Todd Burkhalter, founder of the Georgia financial advisory firm Drive Planning LLC, to the statutory maximum of 20 years...
An Ohio hospital system is dropping Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and two more Medicare Advantage insurers, all out of network January 1
A hospital system in Zanesville, Ohio is giving four Medicare Advantage and Medicaid insurers roughly four months to change how they handle coverage denials or...
Homeowners insurance now rivals the mortgage payment for 44% of owners, and nearly a quarter have been dropped since 2024
Homeowners insurance has closed the gap with the mortgage payment for a large share of American households, according to a new survey: 44% of homeowners...
Full-coverage car insurance climbed about 11% this year to roughly $216 a month
Full-coverage car insurance now runs in the neighborhood of $216 a month for many drivers nationwide, roughly an 11% climb from a year ago and...
Locking your Social Security number online blocks new-account identity theft
A thief with a Social Security number and little else can open a credit card, take out a loan, or file a false tax return...
Romance and crypto “pig-butchering” scams are the fastest-growing way thieves drain retirement savings
A stranger’s message lands out of nowhere — a wrong-number text, a dating-app match, a new follower with a friendly comment — and months later,...
Elder-fraud losses hit roughly $7.75 billion last year, a 59% jump
Older Americans reported losing roughly $7.75 billion to fraud last year, a 59% jump over the prior year, according to the FBI’s own tally of...
A strong 162,000-job August report still leaves information and tech hiring shrinking as companies pour money into AI
The information sector — the corner of the economy that spans computing infrastructure, data processing, publishing and broadcasting — shed 23,000 jobs in August, nearly...
CVS will add stores in 2026 for the first time in five years, closing only a few dozen
CVS Health expects to open roughly 60 stores in 2026, the company’s first increase in its store count in several years, after closing 271 locations...
New Jersey’s ANCHOR rebate payments start September 15, among several state checks this fall
New Jersey’s Division of Taxation begins sending out ANCHOR property tax relief payments on September 15, 2026, one of several state programs putting money back...
A Doxim data-breach settlement pays credit-union members up to $5,000, or $100 with no proof, by October 13
A $5.5 million settlement is now open to people notified that their personal information was exposed in a December 2023 data breach at Doxim, Inc.,...
Looser federal rules mean a flood of Medicare sales calls and mailers this fall, and not all are on the level
Medicare beneficiaries checking the mailbox or answering the phone this fall may notice a change: more calls, more events, and pitches that move faster than...
Some 2027 Medicare Advantage plans can close to new members mid-enrollment
Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period runs on a simple assumption: compare plans through December 7 and sign up for whichever one fits. That assumption breaks down...
Medicare stops fully paying for a nursing-home stay after 20 days
Medicare’s skilled nursing facility benefit reads like solid protection until the calendar reaches day 21. For the first 20 days of a covered stay, Part...
Working while collecting Social Security before full retirement age withholds $1 of benefits for every $2 over the 2026 limit
A retiree who claims Social Security before full retirement age and keeps working is not simply handing money back to the government. Social Security withholds...
