Author: Brian Lund
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Trump’s consumer bureau has posted no new enforcement case since August 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now run under the Trump administration, has not added a new enforcement case to its public list since August 2025. The newest entry on the bureau’s enforcement actions page is Synapse Financial Technologies, filed August 21, 2025, and nothing on the list is dated later. Before Synapse, the previous entry…
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Farmers have until December 11 to enroll in USDA’s ARC and PLC safety nets
Farm operators have until Friday, December 11, 2026, to enroll in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s two main commodity safety nets, Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC). Missing the date has a concrete cost: no 2026 payments from either program for the farm. The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) lists the 2026…
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PacificSource will lay off 134 Oregon workers on December 31
PacificSource, the Oregon health insurer, will lay off 134 workers on December 31, 2026. The company filed a federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, known as a WARN notice, with the state and four cities on October 20, and OPB reported it on October 22. The jobs are in Springfield, Bend, Salem and Portland. The…
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SSI recipients who let Social Security pull their pay data from Equifax each month are protected from the penalty of ineligibility for SSI cash benefits on that data but still must report a new job
Social Security gets monthly pay data from Equifax for some people on Supplemental Security Income, and the arrangement carries a protection. The agency’s 2026 SSI spotlight on the Payroll Information Exchange says people who receive SSI and give authorization are protected from the penalty of ineligibility for SSI cash benefits on the wage and employment…
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Social Security reviews working beneficiaries’ earnings every year, and a latest year among their highest raises the check retroactive to the following January
Social Security quietly checks the paychecks of people who collect benefits and work. The agency says it reviews the records of all beneficiaries who had wages reported for the previous year, and that a raise can follow. A beneficiary whose latest year of earnings is one of their highest gets a bigger monthly check, with…
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Social Security and Medicare coverage applies to nannies, caregivers and housekeepers paid $3,100 or more by one household in 2027, and the employer owes the taxes
A household that pays a nanny, caregiver or housekeeper $3,100 or more in 2027 will owe Social Security and Medicare taxes on that worker’s wages. The Social Security Administration set the 2027 household worker threshold at $3,100 in its annual determinations notice, up from $3,000 for 2026. The notice is scheduled to run in the…
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Social Security says it has collected $645 million in overdue debts through Treasury offsets since March 2025, as its disability claims backlog fell to 911,000
The Social Security Administration says it has returned $645 million in delinquent debt to the Social Security trust funds through the Treasury Offset Program since March 2025. In the same announcement, the agency said its backlog of initial disability claims has fallen to 911,000, down from nearly 1.2 million at the end of fiscal 2024.…
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Former Monzo U.S. customers have until December 31 to update their address to get 2026 interest tax forms, and leftover balances over $1 with no linked bank account arrived as emailed checks
Monzo, the British digital bank, has told former U.S. customers that any 2026 interest tax form will go to the mailing address it has on file, and that address changes must reach the company by December 31, 2026. All Monzo U.S. accounts were closed as of June 8, 2026, and the company now relies on…
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Social Security’s watchdog found 17,979 beneficiaries died owing about $240 million in overpayments, and staff did not follow recovery policy in 59 of 125 sampled cases
Social Security’s inspector general says the agency left money uncollected from people who had died. An audit dated August 5, 2026 identified 17,979 adult beneficiaries who died between December 2022 and December 2024 with about $240 million in outstanding overpayments. In a random sample of 125 of those cases, staff did not follow recovery policy…
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North Carolina homeowners who paid Dovenmuehle a fee to pay their mortgage by phone stand to get about $425 per fee automatically if a judge approves on November 5
Homeowners in North Carolina who paid Dovenmuehle Mortgage a fee to make a mortgage payment by phone are in line for about $425 per fee, with no claim form to file. Chief District Judge Catherine C. Eagles is scheduled to hold the final approval hearing on November 5, 2026, at 2 p.m. in Greensboro, and…