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
Rock salt and cement come off the Canadian tariff list September 15 while all-terrain vehicles and dairy go on
Rock salt and cement will drop off the list of Canadian goods facing Section 338 tariffs on September 15, 2026, replaced by all-terrain vehicles and...
Comments close October 5 on a federal retirement match paying 50 cents on the dollar up to $1,000 a year
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have set one hard date inside an otherwise unfinished retirement-savings program: October 5, 2026, the deadline for...
Medicaid starts checking eligibility twice a year on January 1
Beginning with renewals scheduled on or after January 1, 2027, state Medicaid agencies must redetermine eligibility every six months rather than once a year for...
Trump promised every adult citizen a $5,000 dividend, but only if Republicans win both chambers in the midterms
A cash payment to every adult American citizen is contingent on an outcome that has not happened: Republican control of both the House and the...
The federal government will send $500 refunds to nearly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in 30 states starting in October
Nearly one million Americans spread across 30 states that rely on the federal Affordable Care Act exchange are the focus of a refund program the...
Seasonal workers get their own calculation under Medicaid’s 80-hour rule
Medicaid’s new work requirement checks compliance one calendar month at a time, a design that would automatically fail a farmworker, ski-resort employee, or holiday warehouse...
A Medicaid applicant denied over the work rule can reapply the same day
A Medicaid applicant denied over the new work requirement can walk back into the same office and reapply that same day, with no waiting period...
The president’s order gives Treasury until January 1 to put TrumpIRA.gov online
Executive Order 14403, which President Trump signed on April 30, 2026, sets a hard deadline for the Treasury Department: January 1, 2027, to launch a...
Out-of-pocket marketplace premiums rose 58 percent after the enhanced credits lapsed
The enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that capped what higher earners paid for marketplace coverage expired at the end of 2025 after Congress...
Nevada ordered NV Energy to return $63 million to 108,000 overcharged customers by month’s end
The record on NV Energy’s decades-long billing error is only partly closed. Nevada regulators have finalized how much the utility owes, who receives it, and...
Parents can still claim the $1,000 Trump Account deposit by filing Form 4547 with a 2025 return
A family that has not yet filed an original 2025 federal tax return can still attach Form 4547 to that return and request the one-time...
Medicaid outreach to people already enrolled has to come before any enforcement
Before a state can cut off a Medicaid enrollee’s coverage for failing to log 80 hours of work, school, or community service in a month,...
CMS requires a medically frail Medicaid applicant to show the condition significantly impairs working
Having a diagnosis on Medicaid’s list of medically frail conditions no longer guarantees an exemption from the program’s new work requirement: a state must also...
A one-person food-stamp household can hold $1,729 in gross monthly income and still qualify
A single person applying for food stamps can carry up to $1,729 a month in gross income and still pass the program’s first eligibility test,...
Medicaid lets work, school and community service combine to reach the required 80 hours
Eighty hours a month is the new coverage test for non-pregnant Medicaid enrollees age 19 to 64 in the program’s expansion group, and the federal...
Hospitals now open Trump Accounts for newborns through the same birth paperwork as a Social Security card
On July 3, 2026, the Social Security Administration announced a new process letting parents enroll a newborn in a Trump Account through the same paperwork...
The VA inspector general found 35,100 mail packets that left claimants at least $822,000 short
The VA Office of Inspector General concluded on August 12, 2026, that Veterans Benefits Administration staff wrongly stamped roughly 35,100 mail packets “unidentifiable” between July...
Children and adults over 65 keep annual Medicaid renewals while expansion adults move to six months
One eligibility category is about to decide how often millions of Medicaid enrollees must prove they still qualify, and the split runs by age and...
Tariffs now in force cost roughly $900 per household this year, the Tax Foundation estimates
Cargo arriving at American ports this year carries an added cost that never shows up on a receipt: an estimated $900 per household in federal...
USDA appealed the ruling against state soda and candy bans on August 20
USDA’s window to appeal a federal court ruling on state SNAP food-purchase waivers closed on August 21, 2026, sixty days after the decision came down....