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Providence Health Plan is ending Medicare Advantage and every Medigap policy for 2027, and its Medigap members keep coverage only through March 31
Providence Health Plan is leaving Medicare. Its Medicare Advantage policies end January 1, 2027, and every Medigap supplement it sells is being discontinued, with Medigap...
Social Security never tried to withhold benefits from 48 of the 175 people sampled who owed childhood overpayments totaling $216,373, its watchdog found
Social Security never tried to withhold benefits from 48 of the 175 people its own inspector general sampled, even though they owed overpayments from benefits...
About 392,000 Minnesotans lose their Medicare Advantage plan for 2027 and must pick a new one by December 7, which also opens a guaranteed right to buy Medigap
The Minnesota Board on Aging says about 392,000 of the state’s 1.2 million Medicare enrollees will lose their current Medicare Advantage plan for 2027. Open...
Social Security may still owe about $41 million to an estimated 4,785 disabled beneficiaries who filed for a retirement benefit and were paid the wrong amount
The Social Security inspector general estimates the agency may still be able to pay about $41 million to an estimated 4,785 disabled beneficiaries who filed...
Social Security says the average retired worker’s monthly check will be about $2,170 in January, roughly $75 more after the 3.6% raise
Social Security says the average retired worker’s monthly check will be about $2,170 in January 2027, up from $2,095 before the 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment....
Eligible Original Medicare Part B enrollees without direct deposit get Trump’s rebate as a Treasury check mailed later this month, and Social Security opened a payment-status line on October 15
The $90 Medicare rebate is reaching one group by mail instead of by bank deposit: eligible people in Original Medicare Part B who have no...
Twelve insurers are leaving Medicare Advantage for 2027, Becker’s counts from CMS data, among them Aspirus in Wisconsin and iCircle in New York
Twelve insurers are leaving the Medicare Advantage market for 2027, according to a tally by Becker’s Payer Issues drawn from CMS data. They range from...
Unspent SSI and Social Security back payments stay outside the $2,000 resource limit for nine months, and an earned income tax credit refund for 12
Supplemental Security Income recipients who receive a back payment of SSI or Social Security benefits can keep the unspent part outside the program’s savings limit...
Food stamp payments rose October 1 in Georgia, which had about 2.35 million people on SNAP in June
The most food stamps can pay a household went up on October 1, and Georgia had about 2.35 million people in 589,416 households on SNAP...
Totally disabled Miami-Dade veterans pay no property tax, but must file by March 1
Florida lets a veteran with a total and permanent service-connected disability skip the property tax bill on a homestead entirely. In Miami-Dade County, first-time applicants...
Detroit disabled veterans and unremarried surviving spouses without an approved exemption must file Form 5107 before December 31 to get the year’s property-tax exemption
Detroit homeowners who are disabled veterans, and unremarried surviving spouses of eligible veterans, have until December 31 to file Form 5107 for this year’s property-tax...
Federal rent ceilings for housing vouchers took effect October 1, except in 13 areas that kept last year’s
HUD’s new fair market rents for housing vouchers took effect October 1, but not everywhere. Thirteen areas, including Milwaukee, Madison, San Jose and Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine,...
Gold was quoted at $4,177.20 an ounce on October 18
Gold was quoted at $4,177.20 an ounce on October 18, according to Kitco’s price board, up $13.10 on the day. The quote came late on...
Fannie Mae opened VantageScore 4.0 to every approved lender
Mortgage lenders that sell loans to Fannie Mae no longer need written permission to use VantageScore 4.0, and as of October 1 the pricing for...
Kroger is closing about 60 stores by the end of 2026, and FOX Business counted at least 39 already shut across nine banners by mid-August
Kroger told investors in June 2025 that it would close approximately 60 stores over the next 18 months, and that clock runs out at the...
FHA will accept newer credit score models on case numbers from January 1
Loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration will be scored on a wider menu of credit models next year. For case numbers assigned on or...