The financial news that actually matters
Comcast has agreed to pay $117.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a 2023 data breach that hit its Xfinity internet, cable and phone customers, and the claims window is still open. Eligible customers can request an estimated $50 with no documentation required, or file for reimbursement of up to $10,000 in documented losses…
A collections call about a decade-old credit card bill can feel harmless to settle with a small goodwill payment just to make it stop. In many states, that single dollar can undo years of legal protection. Once a debt passes its statute of limitations, a collector generally cannot successfully sue over it — but making…
Many older Americans add a son or daughter to a checking or savings account so bills get paid on time and money stays reachable if health declines. The bank teller rarely mentions what that signature actually does: it turns the account into shared property, with the child holding the same legal claim to every dollar…
A power of attorney is meant to protect an aging parent, giving a trusted person the legal authority to pay bills, manage investments, or handle banking when the parent can no longer do it alone. Consumer regulators warn the same authority can just as easily be turned against the person it was designed to protect,…
Federal prosecutors say the fight against overseas scam compounds has clawed back more money than most people realize, and the pace of recovery keeps accelerating. The running total, tracked in real time on a Justice Department webpage, has climbed past $800 million in less than a year — money prosecutors say was stolen almost entirely…
A $2.95 million settlement resolving a 2024 data breach at STIIIZY, the California cannabis retail and delivery brand, is now accepting claims from customers whose personal information was exposed in the incident. Eligible members of the settlement class can choose a documented-loss payment of up to $7,500 or a no-proof cash payment, and everyone who…
Walgreens is not disappearing from the corner, but the pharmacy chain is still trimming its footprint in 2026, and the closures keep landing hardest on neighborhoods where an older resident already has to plan a trip to fill a prescription. The company now expects to shut fewer than 100 stores this year, a fraction of…
A Boca Raton man who kept directing a real-estate investment scheme from behind bars will spend the next two decades in federal prison after a judge handed down one of the longer fraud sentences of the year. The case matters beyond South Florida because it followed a pattern regulators say repeatedly targets retirement savings: a…
Owners who regret a timeshare are a ready-made target, because getting out of one is genuinely hard and the frustration is real. Into that gap steps an industry of so-called timeshare exit companies promising to make an unwanted contract disappear. Many charge thousands of dollars up front, do little or nothing to actually cancel the…
Most savers assume that money in a bank is simply safe, full stop. The reality carries a ceiling. Federal deposit insurance guarantees bank accounts only up to a set limit, and any balance parked above that line at a single institution is uninsured. If that bank fails, the protected portion is returned quickly, but the…