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
New Jersey schedules its next Stay NJ property-tax payment for August
New Jersey’s August Stay NJ installment is easy to confuse with the larger benefit schedule for the next tax year. The payment arriving now belongs...
Caremark deal could unlock $13 billion in drug savings over 10 years
The largest number in the Caremark settlement is not a reimbursement fund waiting to be divided among patients. It is the Federal Trade Commission’s ten-year...
Nearly 3 million New Yorkers share $2.1 billion in STAR tax relief
New York’s $2.1 billion STAR total is large enough to sound like a uniform rebate, but the program reaches homeowners through two different mechanisms and...
Diesel reaches $5.37 nationally, up $1.64 from last year
Diesel’s year-over-year jump reaches far beyond the drivers who see the price on a pump display. Freight carriers, contractors, farmers and delivery fleets consume the...
Xbox prices jump as much as $150 under Microsoft’s August increase
Microsoft’s August 1 Xbox increase adds $100 to 512 GB consoles and $150 to 1 TB models, a large enough change to alter the economics...
Gas reaches $4.09 nationally, nearly $1 above last summer
The national average for regular gasoline reached $4.089 a gallon on August 4, up 93.6 cents from $3.153 a year earlier. The rounded $4.09 figure...
Sanders tells Democrats to block a Social Security commission he says threatens 70 million beneficiaries
Sen. Bernie Sanders has turned a procedural Social Security bill into a test of whether Senate Democrats will permit benefit changes to advance through a...
VA urgent care costs $0 for the first three 2026 visits in priority groups 1 through 5
VA’s 2026 copay schedule gives veterans in priority groups 1 through 5 three urgent-care visits at no charge before a $30 copay begins with the...
$1,699.36 monthly starts 2026 VA DIC payments for a surviving spouse
Dependency and Indemnity Compensation begins with a $1,699.36 monthly base for an eligible surviving spouse under the 2026 VA schedule. That figure is the starting...
$180.42 monthly starts VA disability payments at a 10% rating in 2026
A 10% service-connected disability rating produces the first compensable step on VA’s 2026 table: $180.42 a month. The amount is smaller than higher-rating payments, but...
$163,699 is Veterans Pension’s net-worth limit through November 30
Veterans Pension uses a bright eligibility line that can be easy to misread: $163,699 in net worth through November 30, 2026. The figure is not...
$5,780 monthly goes to Medal of Honor recipients in 2026
The Medal of Honor pension is a rare federal payment with a simple eligibility trigger and an unusually large monthly value. For the 2026 rate...
The Labor Department holds recovered back wages for three years before transferring them to Treasury
When the Labor Department recovers unpaid wages but cannot find the worker, the money does not remain available in the same system forever. The Wage...
QVC won court approval to restructure its debt while leaving vendors’ claims unimpaired
QVC Group has cleared the central legal hurdle in its effort to cut a heavy debt load without pushing ordinary vendor claims into the loss...
Americans saved just 2.7% of disposable income in June as inflation ran 3.7%
Households put away only 2.7 cents from each dollar of disposable personal income in June while the price index tied to their spending stood 3.7%...
Veterans awarded retroactive disability compensation can reclaim a VA home-loan funding fee
A later disability award can change the economics of a VA home loan that closed months or years earlier. The decisive date is not when...
$50,000 in USDA repair aid can reach eligible rural homeowners 62 and older
USDA’s Section 504 home-repair program can combine a loan of up to $40,000 with a grant of up to $10,000 for an eligible rural homeowner...
Georgia is sending surplus tax refunds of up to $500 to residents who filed 2024 and 2025 returns
Georgia is returning part of a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to residents this year, sending one-time refunds of up to $500 to taxpayers who filed both...
Low-income Colorado seniors can collect a rebate worth more than $1,100 a year
A Colorado program pays low-income residents 65 and older a rebate worth more than $1,100 a year to offset property tax, rent, and heating bills,...
$1,200 goes to every eligible Alaskan this year from the state’s oil-wealth fund
Eligible Alaskans are due about $1,200 from the state this year, the combined result of a $1,000 Permanent Fund Dividend and a separate $200 energy-relief...