Category: Your Money

Starting with applications dated Jan. 1, 2027, Medicaid will pay for medical bills from only the two months before the month someone applies. The limit has been three months. It covers people 65 and older and applicants with disabilities, along with nearly everyone else except one group that gets even less. The cut comes from…

Two million people who paid a cash-advance app for speed are about to be paid back through the Federal Trade Commission. The agency announced Oct. 8 that it will begin sending PayPal payments on Oct. 27, 2026 to 2,124,796 customers of Cleo AI who paid for eligible instant cash advances, more than $15.8 million in…

Ohio’s ban on buying sugar-sweetened beverages and all fountain drinks with SNAP benefits has a Nov. 1 target date on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s waiver list, but the state has paused it and has not said when it will start. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services announced the pause in early September,…

Borrowers with Perkins loans held by the Education Department will have a new servicer by December 1. Federal Student Aid says in announcement GENERAL-26-58, posted September 22, that the loans are moving from ECSI, the Federal Perkins Loan Servicer, to GCR Servicing, and that the transition is expected to finish on that date. The change…

Nahtahna Castner, 46, of Dansville, New York, was sentenced on September 16 to 48 months, or four years, in federal prison for draining the savings of an elderly neighbor who was over 90. U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa imposed the sentence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York….

U-Haul is offering 30 days of free self-storage and U-Box container use to residents in the path of Isaias, a Gulf storm that was a tropical storm with 65 mph winds on Wednesday and is forecast to become a hurricane by Thursday morning. The company announced the offer on October 7 for 93 of its…

A federal judge has sentenced Ardavan Alamoutinia, 36, of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, to 10 years in prison for filing more than 500 fraudulent pandemic unemployment applications in 27 states. Judge Juan R. Sánchez also ordered three years of supervised release and restitution of $3,177,376, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said on…

The announcement changes no price on an HBO Max or Paramount+ bill, but both services now sit under one owner that says they are headed for a single service. Skydance, the company formed by Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, said in its October 6, 2026 completion announcement that it expects “significant improvements to its…

The U.S. Energy Information Administration now expects gasoline to average $3.56 a gallon in 2027, up from the $3.35 it projected a month earlier. The increase comes in the agency’s October Short-Term Energy Outlook, released October 6, after regular gasoline averaged $4.35 a gallon across September. The 2027 average would still sit 79 cents below…

Households that heat with natural gas are forecast to spend an average of $640 from November through March, according to the Energy Department’s statistical arm. The Winter Fuels Outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, released October 6, puts the Northeast at $879 and the South at $511, and shows the national figure down 9%…