Main Street Dollars

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Every state Medicaid program in the United States now has paperwork in front of the federal government on the same drug-pricing arrangement. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on September 18 that all 50 states, along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have applied to a model built to buy brand-name…

Only the premium half of an overtime check qualifies for the new overtime deduction

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in Credits & Deductions

A pay stub showing $9,000 in overtime for the year does not turn into a $9,000 deduction under the overtime tax break built into the 2025 federal tax law. The Internal Revenue Service says only the portion of overtime pay that exceeds a worker’s regular hourly rate — the “half” inside “time and a half”…

A Medicaid enrollee gets 30 days to prove they worked before coverage ends

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Beginning January 1, 2027, most state Medicaid programs must confirm that certain adult enrollees are meeting a new work requirement before those enrollees can enroll in or keep their coverage. When a state’s own records can’t confirm that on file, federal rules don’t let it move straight to a denial or termination. Instead, the state…

Medicare loosened the rules on when and how a sales agent may call a beneficiary, three weeks before open enrollment

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in Medicare

Several rules that had governed, since 2023, exactly when and how a licensed sales agent could pitch a Medicare Advantage or Part D plan to an older adult have now been stripped away. The changes sit inside the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Contract Year 2027 Medicare Advantage and Part D final rule, finalized…

Medicare plans will stop mailing the letter about unspent dental and grocery money

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in Medicare

Federal regulators have quietly eliminated one of the only tools Medicare Advantage enrollees had for finding out, partway through the year, that a chunk of a plan’s dental, hearing or grocery allowance was about to go unused. Under a final rule the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued this spring, insurers will no longer…

Not one state has a statewide waiver from the food stamp work clock for the first time

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USDA’s latest count of which states still shield food stamp recipients from the program’s work-hours clock has landed at zero, and the agency’s own quarterly archive shows that has never happened before in the reports it has posted. The newest update from the Food and Nutrition Administration lists every state, the District of Columbia, and…

The federal food stamp work rule now reaches age 64, but USDA’s own public page still tells readers it stops at 54

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A law signed fourteen months ago pushed the food-stamp work-requirement age ceiling five years further out, and states have already been enforcing it since last November. The public explainer page the U.S. Department of Agriculture keeps for the same rule, though, has not been rewritten to match. Applicants, caseworkers and advocacy groups who search for…

Every refund check the Federal Trade Commission mails stops being cashable 90 days after it is issued

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in Settlements & Claims

A check from the Federal Trade Commission looks like a straightforward refund sitting in the mailbox, but it comes with a printed expiration date almost nobody reads twice. Every consumer redress check the agency mails carries an instruction that it must be cashed within 90 days of the date it was issued, and once that…

Medicaid renewals go from once a year to twice a year for working-age adults on January 1

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A provision buried inside the 2025 federal reconciliation law is about to change how often working-age Medicaid enrollees have to prove they still qualify for coverage. Beginning with renewal cycles that start in 2027, most adults enrolled through the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion pathway will face an eligibility check every six months instead of…

People who used between 11 and 20 Prime benefits in a year were left out of Amazon’s earlier refunds

Sep 18, 2026

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