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Veterans and homeless adults lost their automatic exemption from SNAP work rules this year
Three categories of SNAP recipients who never had to prove work hours to keep their food benefits now do. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed...
The 2027 VA disability raise is projected near 3.9%, the largest for veterans since 2022
Veterans receiving VA disability compensation are looking at an early estimated raise of about 3.9 percent for 2027, based on forecasts that predate the government’s...
A Trump drug deal now covers 89% of the branded market, with $600 billion in projected savings over a decade
The Trump administration said on August 31 that nine more pharmaceutical manufacturers have agreed to sell drugs in the United States at no more than...
Adults up to age 64 must now meet SNAP’s 80-hour-a-month work rule to keep food aid
A rule change that took effect the day H.R. 1 became law has stretched Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program work requirements over a decade of adults...
The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s global tariffs, and the refunds are going to importers, not households
In a 6-3 ruling issued February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give a president the...
A federal COVID-loan sweep put $245 million in taxpayer losses under scrutiny
A two-month federal enforcement surge targeting alleged fraud in pandemic-era relief programs reached approximately $245 million in intended taxpayer losses, according to the Justice Department....
Rural North Carolina schools are getting $1.25 million for clinics, telehealth and mobile care
A $1.25 million federal award is moving rural health care in North Carolina closer to the school day. The money supports new and expanded school-based...
Kansas is receiving nearly $17 million for rural health technology and patient transportation
Kansas is receiving a new federal rural-health investment worth nearly $17 million, divided between medical technology and transportation between facilities. The split reveals the money...
Maine still offers a $300 check to residents who file a 2025 return by October 15
Maine’s $300 affordability payment remains available to residents who have not yet filed a 2025 state income-tax return, but the route closes on October 15,...
Georgia is cutting $18,000 from the assessed value of qualifying homesteads this year
Georgia’s 2026 property-tax relief does not arrive as a rebate check. The state is reducing the assessed value used on qualifying homesteads by $18,000, then...
Dominion customers could get $10 monthly bill credits for four years under the revised merger offer
Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy have doubled the length of a proposed residential bill credit as they seek approval for their Virginia merger. The revised...
A VA audit found one in three proposed disability cuts was processed with errors
A Department of Veterans Affairs watchdog review found that claims processors made at least one error in about 34 percent of cases last year involving...
Skipping the monthly GI Bill enrollment check can halt a veteran’s housing payment
Since January 2026, every category of Department of Veterans Affairs education beneficiary — not just the students already required to check in — must confirm...
Veterans eligible for two GI Bills can now draw up to 48 combined months of benefits
A veteran who served two separate stretches of duty — one that qualified for the Montgomery GI Bill and a later one that qualified for...
A SNAP office must approve an application within 30 days, or seven in an emergency
Federal law gives a SNAP office 30 days to approve or deny an ordinary application, and only seven days when a household has almost no...
A bill moving through Congress would force faster Medicare Advantage treatment approvals
A bipartisan bill that would force Medicare Advantage plans to speed up and standardize how they approve care has cleared two House committees without a...
Congress returns September 14 to a stack of Social Security and Medicare money bills
Lawmakers returned to Washington on September 14 with three separate bills touching Social Security and Medicare still sitting in committee, none of them enacted and...
The White House plans no raise for about two million federal workers in 2027
President Trump has told Congress that most of the roughly two million civilian federal employees covered by the government’s general pay schedules should not expect...
Trump’s drug-pricing deals now cover 26 companies, but the lower prices are not at the counter yet
The Trump administration says it has now reached most-favored-nation pricing agreements with 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers, after nine more companies signed on in late August, together...
The tariffs Americans paid at the register are being refunded to importers, not shoppers
Billions of dollars in tariff refunds are moving through U.S. Customs and Border Protection this year, the result of a Supreme Court ruling that struck...