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An army of petty thieves, sophisticated fraudsters and international crime syndicates ripped off about $400 million of COVID-19 pandemic aid and unemployment benefits intended for New Yorkers, a USA TODAY Network investigation found. While authorities raced to track down and recoup the stolen tax dollars, the USA TODAY Network investigated the complex…

What do Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried and Al Capone have in common? Capone did serve time for tax evasion, and Holmes was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding the public through her blood-testing company Theranos. Feeding the hungry went along with that, and his efforts were not unsuccessful, given that many people regarded him as a hero…

–New research shows that disabled tourists are paying £242 more than non-disabled customers for travel insurance cover to go on holiday, a significant premium compared to those without disabilities. The findings come at a time when the cost-of-living crisis is placing undue pressure on those with disabilities, who already face significant additional…

–New research shows that disabled tourists are paying $460 more than non-disabled customers for travel insurance cover to go on holiday, a significant premium compared to those without disabilities or medical conditions. The research also looked at the other barriers disabled tourists face whilst travelling, including time inequity, digital…

Agency: " Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, U.S. Department of Agriculture." SUMMARY: The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation amends the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Sugar Beet Crop Insurance Provisions. The changes will be effective for the 2023 and succeeding crop years for counties with a contract change date on or after November 30, 2022, and for the…

Hawaii residents who need health insurance going into the new year will be able to take advantage of extended federal subsidies that can reduce their premiums for Affordable Care Act plans to less than $10 a month thanks to a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress in August. In Hawaii the plans are particularly useful for independent…

Across Florida, tens of thousands of workers labor under uncertain conditions, paid far less than a living wage and lacking critical protections like health insurance. There's a compelling argument for Florida to join them. The report, prepared by FPI with help from the Miami Workers Center, includes a statistical snapshot of domestic workers across Florida…

Jennifer Meserole's Arabi home looks much like it did on March 22, right before a tornado roared out of the still, green sky and smashed it down to the studs, sucking the contents of her daughter's room down the living room stairs as the family cowered in a utility closet. Her two-story colonial on Rose Street looks newer, of course, but has the same footprint and…

I’ ve long avoided using the adage“ You can’ t have your cake and eat it, too” because I don’ t like cake— pie is everything a dessert should be— but there are few other catchy ways to describe what happens when someone tries to attain two mutually exclusive goals at the same time. Politicians in Colorado want to have their cake and eat it, too. Every year since 2019, Colorado…

What sets up kids for success in life, long before they enter school? It begins with their health. Healthy development— no matter the outcome of a child's birth— starts from the beginning of their life through timely and regular access to affordable health insurance and care, screenings, therapies and treatments; healthy brain development; stability in housing…

The financial pain to millions of California families was made immeasurably worse when EDD experienced a bureaucratic meltdown that prevented many jobless workers from collecting unemployment insurance payments, sometimes for months. "California has now fully recovered all jobs that were lost to the pandemic-induced recession, but we know this isn't…

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole put enormous stress on Florida's resiliency efforts to address the impacts of climate change and more importantly the fragile property insurance market. Losses from Nicole, a less powerful storm than Ian, was put at $790 million, according to CoreLogic, a property information and analytics firm. Had either Hurricane Ian continued on…

A Northeast Ohio driver recently lamented that his six-month car insurance premium was going up by 17%, even though he had no claims, tickets or other changes to his family's driving patterns. Dean Fadel, president of the Ohio Insurance Institute, the trade group for the state's property and casualty insurance carriers and Robert Denhard, spokesman for the Ohio…

A Beacon Journal colleague recently lamented that his six-month car insurance premium was going up by 17%, even though he had no claims, tickets or other changes to his family's driving patterns. So I contacted both Dean Fadel, president of the Ohio Insurance Institute, the trade group for the state's property and casualty insurance carriers and Robert Denhard,…

About this time, those who pay the bills for the 650,000 Massachusetts homes that heat with oil probably just received an astronomical invoice for that tankful of fuel. It adds about $100 to an annual premium, but without it, homeowners could be liable for thousands of dollars in environmental cleanup costs. As WGBH reported in March, that's what happened to Kevin…

Workers around Kern County, unless they have an unusually generous employer, can generally look forward to significantly higher health insurance premiums next year— and a chance of still higher increases in the years ahead— because of inflation and pandemic staffing costs that haven't yet worked their way through the health-care system.