Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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California utility customers get the climate credit twice this summer, worth $98.72 in San Diego
The California Climate Credit moves to August and September in 2026. SDG&E customers get $49.36 twice, PG&E $36.18 and SCE $36.00, applied automatically.
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Extra Medicare pay for small rural hospitals expires December 31
Under current law, Medicare-Dependent Hospital payments and the temporary low-volume hospital adjustment expire December 31, 2026, unless Congress acts.
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A Medicare rule finalized this week requires all rehab therapy to start within 36 hours
CMS finalized a revision requiring that all — not just some — therapies begin within 36 hours of admission to an inpatient rehabilitation facility.
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The subsidy holding down standalone Medicare drug premiums ends after 2026
CMS is ending the Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration after 2026. The 2027 national average monthly bid amount is $296.05, and plan premiums arrive in September.
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Medicare will make hospices hand every family the list of drugs they refuse to cover
CMS’s FY2027 hospice final rule makes the election statement addendum mandatory for everyone electing hospice, not just those who ask for it.
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Four Louisiana parishes now have until November 2 to file, and storm victims can tap retirement savings penalty-free
IRS relief for Tropical Storm Arthur moves deadlines to November 2, 2026 for Avoyelles, St. Landry, St. Tammany and Terrebonne parishes, and opens a penalty-free disaster distribution.
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Prosecutors say a courier used a dollar bill as a password to collect $137,000 in gold from a Hawaii woman
A courier charged in a gold bar elder fraud scheme allegedly used a one-dollar bill as a password to collect nine gold bars worth more than $137,000 from an elderly Hawaii woman.
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The IRS raised the business mileage deduction to 76 cents in the middle of the year
IRS Announcement 2026-11 raised the business standard mileage rate to 76 cents and the medical and moving rate to 23.5 cents for travel on or after July 1, 2026.
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Forty-three states must start enforcing Medicaid’s 80-hour work rule by January 1, and $580 in monthly pay satisfies it
CMS’s interim final rule requires 43 states and DC to implement Medicaid’s 80-hour community engagement requirement by January 1, 2027. Earning $580 a month satisfies it.
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Conair is refunding 1.7 million Cuisinart grill brushes after three people swallowed bristles
Conair recalled about 1,719,995 Cuisinart grill brushes after three people swallowed detached metal bristles. The refund can be taken as cash or as store credit worth 20 percent more.
