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.
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Louisiana gets $37.7 million from the Trump administration to recruit doctors and nurses to rural towns, including $12.7 million in incentives from sign-on and retention bonuses to relocation assistance and professional training
Louisiana will put $37.7 million in federal rural health money toward training and recruiting health care workers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
The Trump administration is sending Iowa $209 million to bring robotic surgery, cancer hubs and maternal telehealth to rural hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said October 9 that Iowa’s rural health award of more than $209 million will pay for robotic-assisted...
About 69,000 Amazon Prime members in two D.C. ZIP codes will get back nearly half their membership fees after Amazon quietly excluded them from fast delivery
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced on October 1, 2026, that Amazon will pay $8.25 million to settle claims that it secretly cut two Washington...
VA awarded Optum Serve a 10-year contract worth up to $30 billion to run one national community dental network for veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Optum Serve a 10-year contract worth up to $30 billion to run a single national network of dentists...
Home Depot keeps helping Connecticut customers of bankrupt Wren Kitchens through October 31, after $1.235 million in relief to 286 of them
Home Depot will keep helping Connecticut customers of the bankrupt Wren Kitchens through October 31, Attorney General William Tong announced on October 5, after the...
Starbucks is closing five Washington stores and cutting 51 jobs starting November 14
Starbucks told Washington state on October 7 that it is closing five coffeehouses and ending the jobs of 51 employees, with separations running from November...
A House bill would end SNAP restaurant meals for older, disabled and homeless recipients in nine states
A House bill introduced September 3 would abolish the SNAP Restaurant Meals Program, the state-run option that lets older, disabled and homeless food stamp recipients...
West Virginia flood victims in Lewis, Pleasants, Ritchie and Upshur counties now have until October 17 to apply for FEMA aid
Saturday, October 17, is now the last day for flood victims in four West Virginia counties to apply for FEMA disaster assistance, after FEMA approved...
Indiana disaster victims in 24 counties have until October 25 to seek FEMA aid
Indiana says FEMA has paid or set aside $125 million for storm victims and approved more than 30,000 applications, yet the window for new Individual...
More than 36,000 Marylanders have lost food stamps since November 2025, and the state now pays an added $43 million this year to run SNAP
More than 36,000 Marylanders have lost SNAP, the federal food aid program, since the work-rule changes that began in November 2025, WYPR reported on October...
Ballotpedia counts 40 states that set aside money as Trump’s 2025 law shifted more SNAP office costs onto them October 1, while Arkansas and New Hampshire did not
Forty states had fully or partially set aside money by September 30 for the larger share of SNAP office costs that fell to them on...
Teleflora’s settlement would pay up to $251 a claim to people on the Do Not Call list who got two or more of its promotional texts, and claims close November 17
People on the National Do Not Call Registry who received promotional texts from Teleflora can file claims worth up to $251 each in a Florida...
Alaska’s 2026 Permanent Fund Dividend is $1,200, including a $200 energy relief payment, with direct-deposit applicants scheduled October 1 and paper applicants October 22
Alaska’s 2026 Permanent Fund Dividend is $1,200 per eligible applicant, and $200 of that is labeled an energy relief payment. The state’s Permanent Fund Dividend...
New York’s POWER energy rebate sets checks of $100 to $200 for 8.2 million households, and Governor Hochul says mailing runs from September 21 through December
New York’s Protecting Our Wallets Energy Rebate, known as POWER, sets checks of $100, $150 or $200 for qualifying households, and Governor Kathy Hochul’s office...
MDLIVE patient portal users with Facebook or Google accounts can claim up to $15 from a privacy settlement capped at $3.5 million by December 1
People who signed in to MDLIVE’s online patient portal between May 30, 2023, and August 11, 2025, while holding an active Facebook or Google account,...
CVS privacy settlement pays up to $5 without proof and up to $10 with proof from a $20.5 million fund, and claims close November 16
CVS has agreed to a $20.5 million settlement of a lawsuit over how its websites and mobile app handled visitors’ data, and anyone in the...
Pennsylvania’s LIHEAP heating aid season is scheduled to open November 2 with cash grants of $200 to $1,000 and a $49,500 income limit for four people
Pennsylvania’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, is scheduled to open its 2026-27 season on November 2, with one-time cash grants of $200...
A House-passed bill creating a federal fraud enforcement division awaits Senate action
The House passed the National Fraud Enforcement Division Act, H.R. 9576, by a vote of 352 to 72 on September 16, and the bill now...
A bill letting employee stock ownership plans rely on an independent appraiser’s valuation reached Trump’s desk on October 5 after a 401-14 House vote
Congress sent President Donald Trump a bill on October 5 that would let the trustees of employee stock ownership plans rely on an independent appraiser’s...
USDA says Trump’s dyed-diesel order should mean about $640 million in combined federal and state savings for farmers and ranchers across 224.6 million harvested acres
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on October 5 that President Donald Trump’s new dyed-diesel order should save farmers and ranchers about $640 million in combined...