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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USDA is taking public comments on SNAP food-restriction requests from eight states, including Texas, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Missouri
Thursday, October 15 is the last day to tell USDA what it thinks of the SNAP purchase limits in eight states: Virginia, Texas, South Carolina,...
Health plans must give members personal cost estimates by phone for plan years starting on or after January 1, 2027, under a rule the Trump administration finalized October 5
Group health plans and insurers will have to give members personalized cost-sharing estimates over the phone, not just online or on paper, for plan years...
Montana’s SNAP limits starting November 1 reach prepared desserts, and Nevada’s restrictions will not begin until February 1, 2028, USDA’s waiver table shows
Montana is the only state starting SNAP purchase limits on November 1 that bars prepared desserts. Ohio, North Dakota, South Carolina and Virginia begin the...
Refugees and asylees losing Medicare under the 2025 law are due termination notices in late December, the Center for Medicare Advocacy says of a proposed CMS rule
Refugees, asylees and other lawfully present immigrants who lose Medicare under the 2025 tax and spending law are due formal termination notices toward the end...
Treasury says it stopped about 13,500 payments to people who had died in fiscal 2026 after screening more than 1.1 billion federal payments under Trump’s anti-fraud order
Treasury says it stopped about 13,500 payments worth $175 million that would have gone to people who had died, one result of screening more than...
TrumpRx lists Zepbound starting at $299 a month against a $1,087 price under what the government site calls the lowest presidential deal
TrumpRx.gov, the federal government’s discount drug website, lists Zepbound at “starting at $299” a month, set against a $1,087 original price, under a heading that...
Google, Flo Health and Flurry have agreed to pay a combined $59.5 million to settle Flo period-tracker data-sharing claims, with claim forms due October 15, 2026
Google, Flo Health and the analytics company Flurry have agreed to pay a combined $59.5 million to settle a class action over data that the...
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun extended the state’s gas tax holiday through November 4, suspending gasoline use and excise taxes worth roughly 60 cents a gallon
Indiana will not collect its gasoline use tax or its gasoline excise tax until November 4, after Gov. Mike Braun signed another 30-day extension of...
New Jersey’s Senior Freeze deadline is November 2, and applicants must meet income limits of $168,268 for 2024 and $172,475 for 2025
New Jersey’s Senior Freeze program, which reimburses older and disabled homeowners for property tax increases, stops taking 2025 applications on November 2, 2026. Applicants must...
23andMe’s $46.75 million breach settlement paid approved claimants on September 29 and 30
The payments from 23andMe’s $46.75 million data breach settlement have gone out. The claims administrator says every submitted claim has now been reviewed and that...
Telmate, the prison phone and messaging company, set aside $4.225 million for people exposed in its August 2020 breach, with claims due December 21
Telmate, the company that provides phone and messaging services to people in jail and prison, has agreed to put $4.225 million into a fund for...
Trump’s 100 percent tariff on patented drug imports extended to all other drugmakers on September 29, while companies with pricing deals pay a 0 percent rate
The 100 percent tariff on imported patented drugs now covers every drugmaker that is not already on the White House’s first list, since September 29,...
The PG&E Fire Victim Trust makes its final pro rata payment October 14, bringing wildfire victims to 71.25 percent of their awards with no further rounds
The Fire Victim Trust set up to pay people burned out by PG&E’s wildfires will make its last pro rata payment on October 14, 2026....
New York’s 57 counties outside the five boroughs say they face nearly $460 million a year in new SNAP costs after a federal funding shift on October 1
New York’s 57 counties outside New York City say they face nearly $460 million a year in new SNAP costs, according to a notice from...
Ohio suspended its 38.5-cent gas tax and 47-cent diesel tax from October 4 through January 2, moving $725 million from state reserves to cover the cost
Ohio stopped collecting its 38.5-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax and its 47-cent-a-gallon diesel tax at 12:01 a.m. on October 4, and the pause runs through January 2....
USDA’s comment window on the form behind state SNAP error rates closes October 21
A paperwork notice with 53 government respondents and 50,436 burden hours a year closes its public comment period on October 21, 2026, and the form...
The Medicaid work rule does not force states to demand documentation until January 2028, and until then they must check their own records first
Two dates in the Medicaid work rule are routinely run together, and the gap between them decides what an enrollee can be asked to prove....
Twelve states hold only area waivers from SNAP’s work time limit
No state in the country holds a statewide waiver from SNAP’s three-month work time limit this quarter, and twelve hold waivers that reach only particular...
Specialty medicines from the European Union, Japan, India and the United Kingdom entered the United States tariff-free from September 29
The United States stopped charging import duties on a defined class of specialty medicines from the European Union, Japan, India and the United Kingdom at...
A House bill would phase its tariff rebate out between $112,500 and $120,000 of income for a head of household, and nothing has moved since September 17
H.R. 10494, the American Tariff Rebate Act introduced on September 17 by Rep. Valerie Foushee, a North Carolina Democrat, would shrink its refundable credit to...