If you are somewhere between 55 and 64 and food stamps help you reach the end of the month, a rule that never used to apply to you now does. As of this spring, adults in that age range have to show they are working, training, or volunteering to keep their benefits beyond a few…

A single person’s income crossing $62,600 now creates a sharp health-insurance cost change in the federal Marketplace. Enhanced tax credits expired after 2025, leaving people at or above 400% of poverty to pay the full premium. Insurers’ preliminary 2027 filings add another threat: a median requested increase of 14%. The subsidy cliff returned for 2026…

The new Medicaid work condition does not apply to everyone in the stated age range. Pregnancy, medical frailty and caring for a young child are among the federal exemptions from the 80-hour monthly requirement. The financial protection is substantial because an exemption can preserve health coverage when work is unsafe or caregiving consumes the available…

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…

For more than a year, Medicaid work requirements have been an argument about projections, paperwork and what might eventually happen to somebody. In Nebraska, the argument ended. The state has started removing adults from Medicaid for failing to document enough qualifying hours in a month, and it is the first state in the country to…

If a child in your family was born in 2025, or arrives any time through the end of 2028, the federal government will make a one-time $1,000 deposit into a new kind of savings account carrying that child’s name, provided the child qualifies and someone opens the account. The money comes from the U.S. Treasury,…

Studying entirely online changes how the Post-9/11 GI Bill calculates housing help. For the rate year that began August 1, an eligible online-only student who started using benefits in 2018 or later may receive as much as $1,261 a month. The actual deposit can be lower because eligibility percentage, course load and days enrolled all…

A professional credential can be the last expensive step between training and a better-paying job. The current Post-9/11 GI Bill schedule gives eligible veterans and beneficiaries a way to recover as much as $2,000 of a qualifying licensing or certification test fee, but the reimbursement also uses a portion of the education benefit. That tradeoff…

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.

In 2013, seven out of every ten disability compensation and pension claims sitting at the Department of Veterans Affairs had been waiting more than 125 days. That share is now 11.6 percent. The count of claims stuck past that line dropped under 70,000 in early July, the first time it has been that low since…