Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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Humana is dropping Medicare Advantage plans for about 600,000 members in 2027, and only 4 in 10 will be moved to a plan it keeps
Humana has told investors it will pull out of Medicare Advantage plans that cover roughly 600,000 members for the 2027 plan year, and it expects to move only about four in ten of those people into another plan it still sells. For everyone else, the plan they use today simply will not exist in January,…
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A Minnesota gyro chain owes 46 workers $613,037, about $13,327 each
$613,037. That is the figure the U.S. Department of Labor recovered in back wages from a Minnesota restaurant group after a federal investigation found it had not paid minimum and overtime wages as the law requires. Forty-six workers are attached to that total. The case is small enough to be invisible outside the Twin Cities…
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Tyson closed two beef plants in one day, blaming one of the most historic cattle shortages ever
On August 13, 2026, Tyson Foods put out a news release announcing the end of operations at two beef plants on the same day: a beef facility in Joslin, Illinois, and a case-ready facility in Eagle Mountain, Utah. That same date now sits on Utah’s official layoff-notice table beside the name Tyson Fresh Meats and…
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HUD is auctioning $465 million of reverse mortgages on homes where the owner died and no heir stepped forward
A three-page notice filed in the Federal Register on August 10 carries a docket number, a bid window, and a dollar figure that stands in for roughly 1,500 American houses. The document is the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s second announcement of a loan sale it calls HNVLS 2026-1, and the loans inside it…
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Beef costs 11.8 percent more than a year ago, and the cattle herd is the smallest in 75 years
Beef and veal cost 11.8 percent more in June 2026 than in June 2025. Over the same twelve months, retail egg prices fell 27.9 percent and poultry finished 0.1 percent lower than where it started. Those numbers come out of the same USDA report, on the same page, measured the same way, and the distance…
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Government impersonators took $920 million last year, and the FTC says it will never ask you to move money
About $920 million. That is what people reported losing to government impersonators during 2025, according to data the Federal Trade Commission published on June 15 of this year, up from roughly $789 million the year before. The figure sits inside a larger one: $3.5 billion reported lost last year to imposter scams of every kind,…
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Skimmers can drain an EBT card with no federal replacement, and no state issues chip cards yet
Nothing puts the money back. When a skimmer copies a SNAP EBT card and the account is drained, no federal authority exists to replace what was taken, and the card in the household’s pocket still carries the same magnetic stripe the thief read. Both of those gaps are stated plainly on the agency’s own page,…
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The FTC says a bill-pay site posed as your utility and charged extra, and it will pay $2.1 million
Federal regulators sued the online bill-payment company Doxo in April 2024. A federal court later found, at the agency’s request, that the company had violated a law governing online subscriptions, and on August 17 the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed order requiring Doxo and two co-founders to pay $2.1 million, all of it earmarked…
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A stalled House bill would send married couples $1,700 from tariff money
Nothing has happened to H.R. 9768 since the afternoon it was filed. The official record shows three actions, all stamped July 16, 2026: introduced in the House, introduced in the House again as the clerk logs it, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. No hearing, no markup, no vote, and no cosponsors…
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The extra Obamacare subsidies expired, and the 2027 out-of-pocket ceiling rises to $12,000
A pair of temporary clauses stopped applying on the last day of 2025, and Congress has not written anything to take their place. The live text of the statute still carries both of them, still labeled as running only through 2025, with no later amendment attached. What replaced them is the original 2010 subsidy structure,…
