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 House bill would send tariff-rebate checks up to $2,040 a household, but it hasn’t passed
Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas has introduced a bill that would send rebate checks of up to $2,040 to American households, funded by roughly $231.35...
Tariffs are on track to cost the average family more than $2,500 this year
The Joint Economic Committee’s Democratic staff estimates that tariffs are on pace to cost the average American family more than $2,500 in 2026, a total...
The VA can pay a family member to care for a disabled veteran at home
The Department of Veterans Affairs pays a monthly stipend to a family member who takes on the job of caring for a severely disabled veteran...
A surviving spouse of a veteran may qualify for a monthly tax-free VA survivor payment
A surviving spouse of a veteran who died from a service-connected condition can draw a flat $1,699.36 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs,...
A veteran rated fully disabled draws a monthly tax-free VA payment, plus more for dependents
A veteran with a 100% VA disability rating and no dependents draws $3,938.58 a month in compensation under rates the Department of Veterans Affairs set...
VA benefit payments arrive September 1, the first business day of the month
Millions of veterans and survivors who rely on VA disability compensation or pension will see a deposit land on September 1, 2026 — but that...
A federal outlook sees food-at-home prices up about 3% in 2026, led by beef and coffee
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest forecast puts the year’s grocery bill on track to climb close to overall food inflation, though the headline number...
Coffee is climbing about 5% while egg prices finally fall this year, splitting the grocery bill
Coffee prices are forecast to keep climbing at close to a 5 percent pace this year, even as egg prices are set to post one...
Tariffs are on track to cost the average U.S. household about $900 this year, quietly squeezing fixed incomes
The federal government’s own tally of what its tariffs cost American households keeps moving, and the latest number is real money for anyone living on...
The government’s own estimate says 2.3 million people will lose Medicaid in 2027 under the new work rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects that its new Medicaid work requirement will strip coverage from about 2.3 million people in fiscal year...
Trump opened a 300,000-ton duty-free beef window to push down ground beef prices now running about 19% higher
President Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 opening a temporary, 300,000-metric-ton duty-free window for imported lean beef trimmings, aiming to relieve a ground beef...
New Trump tariffs on Canadian goods took effect this month, and the costs are reaching store shelves
A 50% tariff on a broad slate of Canadian goods took effect Aug. 22, reaching supermarket dairy cases, liquor store shelves and furniture showrooms nationwide...
A restored federal rule set the overtime salary threshold back to $684 a week, so fewer salaried workers get time-and-a-half
The federal salary threshold that determines which salaried workers must be paid overtime is $684 a week, or $35,568 a year, according to the Department...
New Jersey has begun paying seniors up to $6,500 to offset property taxes under its Stay NJ program
New Jersey has started sending its latest round of Stay NJ property-tax payments to seniors, with benefits capped at $6,500 a year for the lowest-income...
AT&T’s proposed $177 million data-breach settlement would cover millions of current and former customers, pending court approval
AT&T’s proposed $177 million settlement over two 2024 data breaches remains stuck awaiting a federal judge’s approval more than seven months after the fairness hearing...
Refugees and certain lawfully present immigrants lose non-emergency Medicaid on October 1 under the new law
Starting October 1, refugees, asylum recipients, certain immigrant parolees and survivors of human trafficking will lose federal funding for non-emergency Medicaid and CHIP coverage under...
A federal judge vacated SNAP soda-and-candy limits in five states, reversing purchase bans that were taking effect
A federal judge in Washington has blocked the Agriculture Department from letting five states bar SNAP recipients from buying soda and candy with food benefits,...
Families can now open a Trump Account for a young child, and the Treasury seeds each one with $1,000
Families of children born between 2025 and 2028 can now open a federally created Trump Account and receive a one-time $1,000 deposit from the U.S....
Diesel prices hit record August highs, raising the cost of nearly everything trucked to store shelves
The national average price of on-highway diesel reached $5.652 a gallon for the week of August 24, according to the Energy Information Administration, its sixth...
Airfare, utilities and medical care are climbing fast enough to eat part of this year’s Social Security raise
The 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment that raised Social Security checks starting in January 2026 was calculated using inflation data from a full year earlier, and several...