Category: Your Money

Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Missouri lead the country in Conservation Reserve Program payments this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency said on Oct. 8 that it is issuing about $1.8 billion in CRP rental payments for 2026 participation, a total that includes Grassland CRP. The money goes to producers…

Special agents from the South Carolina Department of Social Services arrested a 39-year-old Richland County woman on September 23 and charged her with fraudulently receiving $33,410 in food stamp benefits. The department’s Office of Inspector General made the arrest with help from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, according to a release the agency published September…

A federal grand jury in Massachusetts has indicted a Worcester man on charges that he collected about $12,623 in food stamps while living under the identity of a person who died in 2006. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced the indictment on October 1. Prosecutors name the defendant only as “John…

TrumpRx.gov, the federal drug-price website that credits President Trump for its prices, lists 90 tablets of Sanofi’s blood thinner Plavix at $15.95, against an original price of $771.62. The site’s Presidential deals page, which it describes as deals negotiated by President Trump for brand-name drugs, shows the $15.95 figure next to a 98% discount tag,…

A $6,922.62 sticker price now comes with a $950 alternative on a federal website. TrumpRx, the Trump administration’s drug-price site, lists AbbVie’s Humira pen at $950 for cash-paying patients. The discount is a pharmacy coupon, not a plan rate, and its conditions matter most to patients on Medicare. The coupon behind the $950 The Humira…

The federal TrumpRx website lists Johnson & Johnson’s blood thinner Xarelto starting at $197, against an original price of $611.82. Orders are not filled by TrumpRx itself. The listing’s button reads “Get started with J&J Direct,” the manufacturer’s own direct-to-patient program, which ships the medicine and sets who qualifies. What the TrumpRx listing shows for…

Grass and debris can pile up inside DR Power’s Pilot and Premier trimmer mowers and catch fire, and the company is offering owners of about 42,860 of them a free repair kit. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission posted the recall on Oct. 8, 2026 as number 27-016, and it says owners should stop using…

A dresser bought on Amazon for between $100 and $170 can now be returned for a full refund, but only after its owner dismantles it and sends the company photographs. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of about 12,078 Romorgniz six-drawer dressers on Oct. 8, 2026, as recall number 27-020. The wooden…

Owners of 2021-2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee L and 2022-2023 Grand Cherokee SUVs will get free rear coil-spring isolator replacements under a recall saying the springs can detach while driving. FCA US, LLC, the Stellantis unit that makes Jeep, filed the recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which lists 328,381 potentially affected vehicles. NHTSA’s…

Section 111 of Public Law 119-103 contains a two-part rule that decides how long food stamp money can keep moving if Congress does not pass a longer funding bill. Part (a) carries activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, the statute that created the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, through Dec. 11, 2026. Part…