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Subscriptions must now be as easy to cancel as they were to start — a new FTC “click-to-cancel” rule bars the endless phone trees and hidden buttons In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 16,000 public comments on a proposed rule to fix a problem nearly every American with a credit card has…
A household subscribing to Netflix’s Premium plan, the Disney Bundle, Max, and one more streaming service now pays north of $1,000 a year for the privilege of watching TV without ads. That threshold, once unthinkable for cord-cutters, became reality this spring after Netflix raised U.S. prices across all three of its tiers in late March…
A dozen large eggs at a Kroger in suburban Columbus, Ohio, rang up at $1.89 last week. A year ago, the same carton cost north of $4. Across the country, the national average for Grade A large eggs has dropped back toward $2 a dozen, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent retail…
You split a $120 sneaker purchase into four biweekly payments, forgot about the third one, and moved on with your life. A year ago, that missed installment would have vanished into the void. Now it can show up on your credit report and chip away at the same FICO score a mortgage lender pulls when…
Roughly 35.9 million Comcast Xfinity customers had their personal data stolen in a late-2023 cyberattack, and the company is now paying for it. A $117.5 million class action settlement gives affected customers two paths to compensation: file documentation of specific financial losses and claim up to $10,000 in reimbursement, or skip the paperwork and collect…
The deadline to file a claim in the Krispy Kreme data breach settlement is Saturday, June 21, and anyone who received a notification letter has only days left to act. The settlement offers up to $3,500 per person for documented out-of-pocket losses tied to the late 2024 cyberattack that knocked out the doughnut chain’s online…
Nearly 36 million Xfinity customers had their personal data stolen in October 2023, and Comcast is now paying $117.5 million to settle the class-action lawsuit that followed. The claims window is open, but it closes on August 14, 2025, and anyone who misses the deadline walks away with nothing. The settlement, reached in federal court,…
Starting in July 2026, parents of children born since January 1, 2025, can open a new type of federally seeded investment account written into the tax code under Section 530A of the Internal Revenue Code. The government deposits $1,000 into each account. Parents can add up to $5,000 per year. The money goes into approved…
Fidelity’s data breach settlement starts paying out July 27 – file one claim and you could collect up to $5,000 with no receipts required If you got a letter from Fidelity Investments last fall saying your personal data had been compromised, that piece of mail could now be worth thousands of dollars. A class action…
The price gap between a used electric vehicle and a used gas car has shrunk to just $1,102. According to industry pricing data from Cox Automotive, the average used EV transaction price fell 6.1 percent to $34,653 in early 2026, while the average used gasoline vehicle held near $33,551. At the same time, the national…