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
Washington cuts its share of state food-stamp administration from 50 percent to 25 percent on October 1
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Internet stopped counting toward the food-stamp shelter deduction and cannot sit in a utility allowance
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The federal food-stamp page still tells veterans they are excused from a work rule Congress applied to them 14 months ago
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Alaska’s food-stamp shelter deduction cap is $1,229 while the Virgin Islands sits at $606, inside the same program
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A six-person food-stamp household gains $42 a month on October 1
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The FTC and 22 states say Amazon hid an advertising surcharge that got passed to shoppers, worst on Prime Day
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The refunds announced last week reach the people who never got premium help, the same group the subsidy cliff hits hardest
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Coffee and other nonalcoholic drinks cost 4.1 percent more than a year ago while sugar and sweets rose 7.4 percent
The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts nonalcoholic beverage prices will rise 4.3 percent for all of 2026, and the July reading already sits close to...
Beef costs 9.4 percent more than a year ago, eggs 25.7 percent less
Beef and veal prices climbed 9.4 percent in July compared with a year earlier, while retail egg prices fell 25.7 percent over the same stretch,...
Diesel set an all-time record at $5.967 a gallon, up 36.8 cents in a single week
The national average price for on-highway diesel fuel reached $5.967 a gallon during the week of September 7, an all-time high that breaks the previous...
Wholesale prices rose 5.4 percent over the year as energy costs jumped 4.2 percent in a single month
The cost of goods and services leaving American factories, farms and energy producers rose 5.4 percent over the twelve months ended in August, the sharpest...
Refunds of $500 are going to marketplace enrollees who never received a premium subsidy
The people in line for a government refund check tied to the Affordable Care Act are not the enrollees who rely most heavily on federal...
The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon over a hidden advertising surcharge they say shoppers ended up paying
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit against Amazon on August 31, accusing the company of secretly inflating the...
The consumer bureau stopped publishing complaint narratives on August 14
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has stopped publishing the written accounts consumers submit alongside financial complaints, ending a practice that let shoppers search real complaint...
One veteran was shorted $34,782 by a mail contract that grew from $89 million to more than $629 million
A Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general review released in August found that one claimant was underpaid by $34,782 because a piece of mail was...
Ten of the 23 approved food stamp soda bans are running today, and a judge struck five down
The federal government has approved waivers letting 23 states restrict what SNAP benefits can buy, mostly soda, candy, and other sweetened items, but “approved” and...
Medicaid will cover only one month of past medical bills starting January 1
For Medicaid applications filed on or after January 1, 2027, the program’s look-back window for unpaid medical bills shrinks from three months to a single...
The new Medicaid work rule exempts veterans rated totally disabled and anyone already on Medicare
A federal rule finalized in June sets an 80-hour-a-month work requirement for a specific slice of the Medicaid population starting January 1, 2027, but the...
Trump signed an order to cut a records wait of 90 to 180 days for veterans filing benefit claims
President Trump signed an executive order on September 8, 2026 directing the Departments of War and Veterans Affairs to modernize how they share a veteran’s...
Federal agencies must strip Canadian goods from $50 billion in contracts
Federal agencies have a new mandate buried inside the White House’s September 8 response to Canada’s trade retaliation: strip Canadian-origin products from the General Services...