Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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Louisville Ladder is mailing free repair kits for 1.7 million attic ladders whose bolts can break mid-climb
An attic stairway can look solid until the hardware carrying a person’s weight fails. A new federal recall covers roughly 1.77 million folding ladders sold over nearly fourteen years, and the remedy is a free hardware kit rather than a replacement staircase. Owners should stop using an affected ladder until the new bolts are installed.…
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Already meeting SNAP’s work rule? That also satisfies Medicaid’s new 80-hour requirement
Some households will not need to prove the same work activity twice. Under the federal Medicaid framework, a person already complying with a similar SNAP or TANF work requirement satisfies the new monthly Medicaid condition. The protection is valuable, but it will work only if state systems recognize the existing record. The cross-program rule is…
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Sentara has served Anthem a termination notice that could push 380,000 Virginians out of network on January 1
A contract dispute between a hospital system and an insurer can become a household budget problem overnight. Nearly 380,000 Anthem members in Virginia are now facing that possibility, although their present coverage and in-network rates have not changed. The practical job is to prepare for a split without treating a negotiating notice as a finished…
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The FTC says Hims & Hers hid its cancel button and shared health data with Meta and Snap
Everything that follows is an allegation, and a court has not ruled on any of it. On July 29, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in federal court against Hims & Hers Health, Inc., and as of August 6 the agency’s own case page still lists the matter as pending with a single…
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The FTC is sending Zelle payments to Ring customers who never cashed a check
An uncashed check is one of the quieter ways money disappears. It goes to an address somebody moved away from two years ago, or it arrives, gets set aside on the counter, and the expiration date does the rest. The Federal Trade Commission is now making a third attempt to get money to a group…
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Virginia’s cooling assistance for households with a member 60 or older closes August 15
Counting from August 6, 2026, nine days are left. Virginia’s cooling assistance window opened on June 15 and closes on August 15, and there is a second clock running behind the printed one, because the money can be exhausted before the date arrives. What catches households out, though, is rarely the deadline. It is the…
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Connecticut renters 65 and older have until September 30 to claim up to $900
Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management uses a sentence on its renters’ rebate page that most benefit programs go out of their way to avoid: “There are no extensions permitted.” That is not a note about processing times or a caution about missing paperwork. It is the state saying that when the filing window shuts,…
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University of Phoenix borrowers can still seek full loan forgiveness, even after taking the FTC settlement money
Cashing a settlement check normally costs you something. In most consumer cases the money arrives attached to a release, and taking it closes the file for good. The University of Phoenix payments do not work that way, and the Federal Trade Commission now says so twice on the same page: once for people whose loan-forgiveness…
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Austin car dealerships will pay $925,000 in a harassment case brought for five employees
A male sales manager reported sexual harassment. He was transferred. After that, he was terminated. That order of events is what distinguishes this case from the run of workplace matters that end quietly, and it is one of the things a federal court in Texas has now signed off on resolving. The three-year consent decree…
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Four staffing agencies and a Newton hotel owe $875,234 for wage theft affecting about 421 workers
Temp work runs through layers. A staffing agency hires the worker, a client company gets the labor, and the person actually doing the job can end up with two businesses above them and no clear answer about which one owes what. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced citations on August 5 against four staffing…
