Money in the News
Trending and breaking stories with a financial angle. This category covers the headlines that affect people’s wallets, from government policy shifts and cost of living changes to corporate upheaval and the financial side of technology. This is what keeps The Money Overview current with the broader news cycle.
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New Jersey began sending ANCHOR property tax payments September 15, and most arrive within 90 days
New Jersey homeowners began seeing ANCHOR property-tax payments arrive on a rolling basis starting Sept. 15, 2026, with the state’s Division of Taxation saying most...
Patented drug imports from Japan, the EU, South Korea and Switzerland face a 15% rate under Trump’s pharmaceutical tariffs
Patented drug imports tied to Japan, the European Union, South Korea and Switzerland carry a 15% tariff under the guidance Customs and Border Protection issued...
Trump’s replacement tariffs of 10% or 12.5% now reach imports from 60 trading partners
Sixty trading partners now face a Section 301 tariff of either 10% or 12.5%, a schedule that took effect July 24 and covers an estimated...
Federal law enforcement officers would get a 3.8% raise in 2027 under Trump’s plan while other civilian pay stays frozen
Law enforcement personnel are the one group inside the government’s 2027 pay plan whose compensation is scheduled to rise: a 3.8 percent increase, delivered not...
The Thrifty Food Plan behind food-stamp amounts cannot be reevaluated before October 1, 2027
October 1, 2027, is the earliest date USDA can next reevaluate the Thrifty Food Plan, the market-basket model that sets the cost basis behind every...
Medicaid expansion adults must renew coverage every six months starting with renewals in 2027
Medicaid’s adult expansion group is about to renew coverage twice as often. A CMS letter to state Medicaid directors, SMD 26-001, requires states to redetermine...
The FTC and 22 states say Amazon charged sellers a hidden ad surcharge that took in tens of billions
Amazon built a hidden surcharge into its advertising auctions and used it to extract tens of billions of dollars from sellers since 2019, the Federal...
Florida’s plan to exempt up to $250,000 of a home’s value from property taxes polls at 45 percent, short of the 60 percent needed
St. Pete Polls found 45 percent of likely Florida voters backing a proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the state’s homestead property-tax exemption to as...
The minimum food stamp benefit is $36 in Guam and $32 in the Virgin Islands from October 1
The smallest monthly SNAP payment a qualifying one- or two-person household can receive climbs to $25 in the 48 states and Washington, D.C. on October...
A single person in Alaska can have up to $1,663 a month in net income and still get food stamps from October 1
A single adult in Alaska can earn up to $1,663 a month in net income and still qualify for food stamps once the Supplemental Nutrition...
Food stamp households with an elderly or disabled member only have to pass the net income test
A food-stamp household with someone who is elderly or disabled clears eligibility under a shorter income test than everyone else who applies: only the net...
Eight states now enforce food stamp soda or candy limits, and five more start November 1
Eight states already bar SNAP shoppers from buying certain sodas or candy with food assistance, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food-restriction waiver table, updated...
Disney+ and Hulu ad-free plans rise to $21.49 a month, and existing subscribers pay the new rate next month
Disney+ Premium and Hulu’s ad-free plan both climbed to $21.49 a month this week, a $2.50 jump from $18.99 and the fourth increase to that...
Alaska and Hawaii can get good-faith exemptions from the food-stamp work time limit through 2028
Alaska and Hawaii are the only two states with a second route around SNAP’s tightened work-time limit, and the route has nothing to do with...
Ohio food stamp shoppers lose sugary drinks and all fountain drinks starting November 1
Ohio’s plan to strip sugary drinks and all fountain drinks from food-stamp purchases missed its original October 1 start after federal regulators asked the state...
Areas now need unemployment above 10% to waive the food-stamp work time limit
A change embedded in this year’s federal tax and spending law has raised the bar for waiving SNAP’s work-time limit for so-called able-bodied adults without...
VA says its disability claims backlog is down more than 70% since January 2025
VA said this week that its disability-claims backlog is down more than 70% since Jan. 20, 2025, a reduction the agency’s own release ties to...
Illinois has lost more than 368,000 food stamp recipients
Illinois lost more than 368,000 SNAP recipients, a drop of roughly 20 percent, in the fourteen months after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act took...
VA says it has processed more than 3 million disability claims this fiscal year, in record time
The Department of Veterans Affairs said this week it had processed more than 3 million disability benefits claims in fiscal year 2026, as of Sept....
The Disney+ and Hulu ad-free bundle rises to $21.99 a month
The Disney+, Hulu Bundle Premium, the ad-free package that combines both apps, rose to $21.99 a month this week, a two-dollar increase from $19.99. The...