Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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Cleo AI refund notices come from [email protected] between October 8 and October 26, and anyone asking for a fee is a scam
People who paid Cleo AI for eligible instant cash advances are about to hear from the Federal Trade Commission. The agency says the notice emails come from [email protected] and go out between October 8 and October 26, 2026. Starting October 27, the FTC says it will send 2,124,796 PayPal payments totaling more than $15.8 million.…
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Pennsylvania’s rebate for older homeowners and renters closes December 31, after more than 513,000 people shared over $315 million last year
Pennsylvania’s rebate program for older homeowners and renters takes its last applications for the 2025 claim year on December 31, 2026. The Department of Revenue says more than 513,000 people shared over $315 million from the Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program last year. The program is for Pennsylvanians who are 65 or older, widows and widowers…
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TrumpRx opened with 43 medications priced from $3.15 for Medrol to $2,217 for Ngenla, all of it cash-pay with no insurance
TrumpRx, the federal website for discounted drug prices, opened in February with 43 medications, priced from $3.15 for Medrol to $2,217 for Ngenla. CBS News reported on February 6, 2026 that the discounts are available only to patients paying cash: the site does not accept insurance, and money spent there does not count toward a…
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Households that heat with oil are forecast to spend $2,115 between November and March, including a $509 bill in January alone
A household that heats with oil is forecast to spend $2,115 on fuel from November through March, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The agency’s winter fuels outlook, published October 6, puts the single costliest month, January, at $509. Both numbers are forecasts of an average household, built on expected prices and weather, so…
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A Medicare Advantage plan that is not renewed opens a special enrollment period running December 8 through the last day of February
Medicare says a Medicare Advantage plan, Medicare drug plan or Medicare Cost Plan whose contract is not renewed opens a special enrollment period that runs from December 8 through the last day of February, which is February 28, 2027. The window starts the day after the annual enrollment period closes on December 7, and it…
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SNAP authority, flood insurance and about two dozen VA programs are funded only through December 11 under the law enacted in September
Congress has paid for SNAP, the national flood insurance program and about two dozen Veterans Affairs programs only through December 11, 2026. That is the end date in Public Law 119-103, the stopgap spending law approved September 2. The law sets the date and does not say what happens on the 12th, so for now…
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Social Security cannot set any of its 2027 numbers until the September inflation report lands on Wednesday, October 14
Social Security has not published a 2027 cost-of-living adjustment, and it will not have the data to do so until the government’s September inflation report comes out at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 14. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists the Consumer Price Index release on its October calendar for that morning, covering September…
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Six home insurers have until October 16 to answer Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley’s questions about claims closed without payment
Six of the country’s biggest home insurers have been asked to explain how often they close claims without paying. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley sent each company a letter dated October 2, 2026, and asked for answers by October 16. The letters ask questions. Nothing has been found against any of the six, no…
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Kentucky will require Medicaid expansion adults to log 80 hours in three of the six months before each renewal from January 1, with copays from October 2028
Kentucky will start requiring some Medicaid members to prove they are working or serving their community on January 1, 2027. Under the new rule, adults on the state’s Medicaid expansion must show 80 hours of work or community engagement in at least three of the six months before each renewal, according to the Kentucky Health…
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Trump’s October Medicare rebate left out anyone whose premium Medicaid pays, and anyone who owes an income surcharge
Medicare enrollees whose Part B premiums are paid by Medicaid, and those who pay the income-related surcharge on their premium, were left out of the one-time $90 payment the White House announced for early October. The administration’s fact sheet describes “one-time payments of $90 per person” meant to help more than 20 million enrollees with…