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.
Latest in Money in the News
Importers have 180 days after liquidation to protest a tariff, and a court case can cost more than the refund
A tariff refund can look straightforward in the abstract: a court says duties were overpaid, Customs returns the money, and an importer moves on. The...
The Tax Foundation estimates tariffs cost the average household $820 this year, down from about $1,000 in 2025
The Tax Foundation estimates that tariffs in force this year amount to an average tax increase of $820 per U.S. household, down from about $1,000...
The 10 percent tariff on everything expired in July, replaced by a forced-labor tariff
The 10 percent across-the-board tariff imposed under Section 122 did not remain in force after July. Tax Foundation’s tariff tracker says it ran from February...
The consumer bureau decides who gets money from its penalty fund, and consumers cannot apply for it
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Civil Penalty Fund does not work like a public application program. The bureau states that consumers cannot apply to receive...
Marketplace insurers have requested a median 15 percent increase for 2027, and last year’s requests grew before they were final
Marketplace insurers have requested a median 15 percent premium increase for 2027, according to KFF’s review of public rate filings. That is a request, not...
Enrolling in a marketplace plan after December 15 pushes coverage back to February 1
December 15 is not the last day to sign up for 2027 marketplace coverage. It is the last day to enroll or change plans for...
Open enrollment for 2027 marketplace coverage still runs to January 15 after a court threw out a shorter window
HealthCare.gov is still showing a full November 1 through January 15 enrollment period for 2027 marketplace coverage, even though a federal rule had been set...
Marketplace plans can no longer count routine adult dental work as an essential health benefit in 2027
The federal rules governing 2027 Marketplace coverage draw a sharper line around adult dental care. Routine non-pediatric dental services can no longer be counted as...
Food stamp spending is running about $1 billion a month below a year ago
Food-stamp benefit issuance in June 2026 was just under $6.8 billion, according to the latest national table from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In June...
Food stamp enrollment fell to 36.3 million in June, down 4.3 million since October
National SNAP participation stood at 36,352,716 people in June 2026, according to the latest monthly table from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That is 4,318,878...
A food stamp household’s non-excluded vehicle counts as a resource above $4,650
A car is not automatically treated the same way in every SNAP resource calculation. USDA’s rule begins with whether the vehicle is excluded; only a...
The $35 floor on the food stamp medical deduction holds steady in October while every deduction around it rises
October’s annual SNAP adjustments raise several familiar figures, including the standard deduction and the cap on excess shelter costs. One number does not move: the...
Third-party energy assistance stops counting as income, but only for a household with an elderly or disabled member
A change in the 2025 spending law separates food-stamp households into two groups when outside help pays an energy bill. For a household that includes...
States generally start paying a share of food stamp benefits in October 2027
A provision in the 2025 tax and spending law is about to change who pays for food stamp benefits, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Food stamps added a work-rule exception for an Indian, Urban Indian and California Indian
The Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service told state SNAP agencies on October 3, 2025, that Section 10102 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act...
The food stamp parent exemption now ends when the youngest child turns 14
Section 10102 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Public Law 119-21, narrowed a caregiving exception inside the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s toughest work rule....
The most a healthy spouse can be allotted from a nursing home resident’s income is $4,066.50 a month
Federal regulators have set the ceiling on how much of a nursing home resident’s income a spouse still living at home can be allotted at...
A Medicaid enrollee dropped for missing the work rule can reapply at any time
Nothing in CMS’s new Medicaid work rule keeps a disenrolled adult from filing a new application the same day coverage ends. The interim final rule...
States may excuse the Medicaid work rule in counties where unemployment reaches 8 percent or 1.5 times the national rate
A single sentence buried inside a federal fact sheet decides whether a hospital stay, a disaster declaration, or a weak local job market can pause...
A state must give ten days notice and a hearing right before it shortens someone’s Medicaid coverage
Federal Medicaid regulation sets a hard floor: a state cannot cut short someone’s coverage period without written notice at least ten days beforehand, plus the...