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
A food-stamp store that fails the new stocking test can be cut off for six months before it reapplies
A SNAP-authorized grocery or convenience store that cannot keep enough dairy, produce, grain, and protein on its shelves now risks losing its ability to accept...
Butter and beef jerky were demoted from staple to snack under new SNAP rules
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has redrawn the line between what counts as a dietary staple and what counts as an extra under the Supplemental...
A food-stamp error counts whether the state paid a household too much or little
When the federal government measures how accurately states run the food-stamp program, it counts two very different mistakes as the same kind of error. A...
Miss the food-stamp work rule and benefits stop after three months out of every 36
Adults subject to SNAP’s work-hour rule get a limited window before benefits stop entirely. Someone who does not meet the work requirement can receive benefits...
Veterans and young adults leaving foster care lost their food-stamp work exemption under the 2025 law
Three groups of SNAP recipients who used to be automatically excused from the program’s work-hour rule no longer are. Under the 2025 law, the exemptions...
A food-stamp recipient caring for a child loses the work-rule exemption once that child turns 14
Caring for a child no longer exempts a SNAP recipient from the program’s work-hour rule for as long as it used to. The age threshold...
States that miss the 6 percent food-stamp error mark will soon have to cover part of the cost
The federal government reported that SNAP’s national payment error rate hit 10.62% in fiscal year 2025, translating into roughly $10.1 billion in combined overpayments and...
The Medicaid work rule begins January 1, and for the first year you can simply attest that you met it
A new Medicaid rule set to take effect January 1, 2027 will require certain enrollees to complete 80 hours a month under a new community...
Food stamps now apply the 80-hour work rule to people as old as 64, pulling in about a million more adults
The federal work-hour test that governs food-stamp eligibility now reaches nine years further into late working age than it did before. Under changes to the...
Gasoline rose 27.4 percent over the year and did more than a third of August’s monthly inflation
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Car insurance fell 5.1 percent, the biggest decline in the whole report
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Heating oil is up 52 percent with the tank-filling season weeks away
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An executive order signed September 8 targets the 90-to-180-day records transfer that delays veterans’ benefits
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Tariff refunds reach only the importers of record who paid the duty, and about $100 billion has been certified
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Canadian dairy and liquor stop being importable on September 29, and the product list changes September 15
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Customs duties brought in $194.9 billion in fiscal 2025, against a $5,000-per-adult promise costing roughly $1.3 trillion
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Medicaid must give 30 days’ notice before cutting an enrollee it cannot verify
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Medicaid’s 80-hour work rule reaches 43 states and D.C. on January 1, and anyone on Medicare is exempt
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A House committee bill would cut HUD by 10.4 percent and voucher administration money by $536 million
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The food-stamp error rate hit 10.62 percent against a 6 percent congressional threshold
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