The federal government has launched a website, TrumpRx.gov, that the administration says will let people see and compare cash prices for prescription drugs — and, in some cases, buy them directly at lower prices than they might pay otherwise. The platform was announced earlier this year and has been expanding since, with the administration positioning…

A pair of Medicaid changes that take hold in 2027 could quietly cost millions of Americans their health coverage, not because they are ineligible, but because keeping it will take more paperwork than many can manage. Starting January 1, 2027, a large group of adults on Medicaid will have to prove they are working, studying,…

A three-year clock that decides whether hundreds of thousands of older Americans keep their grocery benefits runs out on September 30. For the first time, adults in their late 50s and early 60s are on that clock, after a 2025 law pushed the age ceiling for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s work rules all the…

Behind the headlines about SNAP’s new work rules sits a quieter change that will shrink grocery benefits for hundreds of thousands of families without any change in whether they qualify. A revision to how utility costs are counted in the SNAP benefit formula is lowering monthly payments for roughly 600,000 households. It works not by…

A nationwide Medicaid work requirement is coming, and a few states are not waiting for the deadline. Federal regulators have set January 1, 2027, as the date by which states must require many adults on Medicaid to log work hours to keep their coverage. Nebraska has already begun, and its early rollout offers a preview…

The nation’s largest anti-hunger program has shrunk fast. In roughly a year, the number of people receiving SNAP food benefits fell by about 5 million, a drop that came faster than federal officials had projected. Behind the decline is a new set of work rules that took effect after last year’s big tax-and-spending law, and…

More than 4 million people have already dropped off SNAP, the country’s largest food-assistance program, as tougher work rules from the 2025 federal law take hold. Average monthly enrollment has fallen by roughly 5 million from a year earlier, and analysts expect the number to keep climbing as states finish rolling out the requirements. Behind…

Millions of adults who got health coverage through Medicaid expansion — and who have paid little or nothing at the doctor’s office — can now be charged up to $35 for a service under the 2025 federal law. States are permitted, and in some cases required, to impose these cost-sharing charges on expansion enrollees whose…

The food-stamp work rule that used to apply only to childless adults under 55 now reaches millions more people, including parents of teenagers and adults right up to their 65th birthday. Under the 2025 federal law, these newly covered groups must document at least 80 hours a month of work, training, or volunteering, or their…

Three dates govern a veteran’s next disability increase, and none of them has arrived. Social Security announces its cost-of-living adjustment in October, the new percentage takes effect December 1, 2026, and it first appears in the payment veterans receive in January 2027. Until that October announcement, there is no 2027 VA disability figure of any…