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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Forty-three states and the District of Columbia have to run the Medicaid work rule by January 1, and the territories do not
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued an interim final rule on June 1, 2026, requiring most states to condition Medicaid eligibility on 80...
Subsidized marketplace enrollees went from paying $888 a year to $1,904 after the enhanced tax credits lapsed
The extra financial help that had kept Affordable Care Act marketplace premiums artificially flat for four straight years disappeared at the end of 2025, and...
The food stamp change-reporting threshold rises 20 percent to $150 on October 1 for households assigned to report
The dollar threshold that forces some Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program households to report a rise or fall in income is climbing 20 percent, from $125...
A food stamp household with an elderly or disabled member can deduct every dollar of shelter cost above half its income
The federal government caps how much shelter expense a food stamp household can subtract from its income before benefits are calculated — except for one...
Medicaid cuts expansion adults to one month of retroactive coverage for any application filed from January 1
A single footnote inside a routine guidance letter to state Medicaid directors is about to reset what happens to a hospital bill filed too late....
The enhanced marketplace subsidies expired at the end of 2025, and 2027 rates assume a sicker pool
Health insurers filing 2027 Affordable Care Act Marketplace rates are proposing a median premium increase of 15 percent, according to an analysis of 276 insurers...
The government is funded only to December 11, and winter heating aid has no appropriation yet
Congress has funded the federal government only through December 11, and the winter heating-assistance program that helps millions of older Americans pay their gas, electric...
Nearly 6,000 food-stamp retailers have been disqualified or suspended, and 2,000 illegal point-of-sale devices blocked
Operation SNAP Back, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s retailer-enforcement campaign, has produced nearly 6,000 food-stamp retailer disqualifications or suspensions and the removal of more than...
A rule that took effect September 18 lets food stamps and Medicaid count against a green-card application
The Department of Homeland Security began weighing an immigrant’s use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and most means-tested Medicaid coverage against a green-card application...
A missed Medicaid work-rule check brings a notice and 30 days to prove the hours or lose coverage
A federal Medicaid rule now gives states exactly one option when they cannot confirm an enrollee logged the required work hours: send a written notice...
Veterans with a total disability rating are exempt from Medicaid’s new work rule, along with tribal members
A new exemption list spells out who is spared from Medicaid’s first nationwide work requirement, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services names nine...
The Ways and Means Committee advanced a Medicare pilot for medically tailored home-delivered meals, 39 to nothing
Medicare would pay for the home-delivered meals pilot by taking the cost out of other hospitals’ payments rather than adding new money to the program,...
A House committee advanced a Medicare Alzheimer’s screening bill 40 to nothing on September 16
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 40 to 0 on September 16 to advance H.R. 6130, the Alzheimer’s Screening and Prevention Act, sending the...
Most-favored-nation drug pricing now reaches Medicaid in all 50 states, with ten-year savings projected at $64.3 billion
The White House announced on September 18 that most-favored-nation drug pricing now extends to every state’s Medicaid program, bringing to government-funded coverage the same rebate...
Medicaid switches expansion adults to renewals every six months, starting with dates set on or after January 1
Beginning with renewals scheduled on or after January 1, 2027, the fifty states and the District of Columbia must redetermine Medicaid eligibility for most adults...
A four-person food-stamp household can net $2,750 a month from October 1 and still qualify
A four-person household can earn up to $2,750 a month in net income and still qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program once the new...
Medicaid’s new work rule counts half-time school, and caring for a child 13 or under, as meeting the hours
A new federal rule taking effect for Medicaid enrollees in 43 states and the District of Columbia by January 1, 2027, treats two very different...
Social Security’s October 14 announcement also sets the 2027 raise for every veteran drawing disability pay
Social Security is on track to certify the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment on October 14, and under a standing legal requirement, that percentage will simultaneously reset...
A new order gives veterans’ records offices a deadline after transfers averaged up to 180 days
President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14426 on September 8, 2026, directing the Department of War and the Department of Veterans Affairs to share military...
Medicaid has received one million free Eliquis prescriptions under the new drug pricing deal
The White House said this month that Medicaid programs in all 50 states have already received one million free prescriptions of Eliquis, the blood thinner...