Category: Your Money

Members who signed up for Costco’s warehouse discount and stayed loyal in part for its extra perks got an unpleasant surprise this month: a marketplace called Costco Next simply stopped working, with no announcement, no farewell notice and no explanation from the company. The program had offered discounts of up to 40 percent on products…

Two more categories of food-stamp recipients have lost a work-rule exemption that used to require nothing more than their circumstances to qualify. People experiencing homelessness and young adults who recently aged out of the foster care system no longer have a standing carve-out from SNAP’s toughest work requirement, under the same 2025 federal law that…

Two groups of food-stamp recipients who used to be automatically excused from the program’s toughest work rule no longer are. Veterans, regardless of service history or discharge status, and caregivers of teenagers age 14 and older have both lost a standing exemption from the SNAP work-hour count under the 2025 federal law that also raised…

Protecting financial records ahead of a disaster is not only an insurance matter but a tax one, the Internal Revenue Service reminded taxpayers in the first week of September. Photographs and videos of belongings, the agency said, can support both an insurance claim and a federal casualty-loss deduction if a home, business or vehicle is…

A federal rule change that reshapes who has to work for food-stamp benefits has quietly moved the finish line a decade further down the age scale. Adults who spent years watching the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s toughest work requirement apply only to people younger than 55 are now covered clear through age 64, and the…

In the CarShield Settlement matter, The Federal Trade Commission’s current refund-program table includes CarShield Settlement, placing the program among the agency’s active consumer-redress matters as of September 15. For CarShield Settlement, The row is useful because it is a current government status record, but it is narrower than a finding that every past customer is…

In the Next-Gen matter, The Federal Trade Commission’s current refund-program table includes Next-Gen, placing the program among the agency’s active consumer-redress matters as of September 15. For Next-Gen, The row is useful because it is a current government status record, but it is narrower than a finding that every past customer is entitled to a…

In the First American Payment Systems Settlement matter, The Federal Trade Commission’s current refund-program table includes First American Payment Systems Settlement, placing the program among the agency’s active consumer-redress matters as of September 15. For First American Payment Systems Settlement, The row is useful because it is a current government status record, but it is…

In the Mission Hills Federal matter, The Federal Trade Commission’s current refund-program table includes Mission Hills Federal, placing the program among the agency’s active consumer-redress matters as of September 15. For Mission Hills Federal, The row is useful because it is a current government status record, but it is narrower than a finding that every…

In the Pyrex matter, The Federal Trade Commission’s current refund-program table includes Pyrex, placing the program among the agency’s active consumer-redress matters as of September 15. For Pyrex, The row is useful because it is a current government status record, but it is narrower than a finding that every past customer is entitled to a…