From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Nearly 5 million people in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are eligible for Medicare, data shows. Glenda Radical leads about 15 Medicare counselors in Delaware County's PA MEDI program who offer residents guidance on what plans might be best for their health…
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Chris England, D- Tuscaloosa, reintroduced a bill to reform Alabama's cash bail system, which he says has benefitted the bail bondsman industry at the expense of "judges, prosecutors, defendants and the accused." It saw opposition from the bail bondsman industry, with Chris McNeil, president of the Alabama Bail Bond Association and owner of Outlaw Bail Bonds in…
Glenn Youngkin told the experts on his Joint Advisory Board of Economists Tuesday that he likes to look at how people feel. For Youngkin, sentiment about the economy is one of the big three things, along with the generally clearer signals that come from employment data and how the Federal Reserve System is steering interest rates, that say where an economy is…
September saw the Federal Reserve starting its rate cutting cycle, softer rhetoric from the Bank of Japan and significant stimulus announcements from China. UK equities underperformed with consumer confidence falling ahead of October's UK budget announcement. Kingfisher announced a reasonable set of interim results in which it pointed to some…
Oct. 10— An Acadia Parish couple is suing travel insurers that refused to reimburse them for delays, missed flights and a $15,000 armored car rental fee they incurred escaping Israel in the days following the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks that left more than 1,200 men, women and children dead. Pierre and Bertha Besse of Rayne, who are both in their 70 s and are…
New York's attorney general, Letitia James, campaigned on a "get Trump" platform, and set her sights on destroying him no matter how corrupt she had to be. The Federal Reserve has been losing massive amounts of money since 2022 by essentially paying banks more money for their deposits than what they earn. U.S. Federal Reserve losses crossed the $200 billion point…
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Floify, the mortgage industry's leading point-of-sale solution, today announced the availability of Floify Verify, a native electronic verification of income and employment service powered by Argyle. Reports generated by Floify Verify have the potential to receive representations and warranties relief on eligible loan components from both Fannie Mae…
RALEIGH— Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey reminds Medicare beneficiaries that it's time to compare and evaluate their current plans and make necessary changes during the annual open enrollment period, according to a press release from the N.C. Department of Insurance. The Open Enrollment Period begins on Oct. 15 and runs for eight weeks to give you enough…
TD Bank's guilty pleas are part of a settlement with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board as well as the US Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. "By making its services convenient for criminals, TD Bank became one," said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. "Today, TD Bank also…
The Ford F-150 costs 11% less to insure than the U.S. average, with an annual full-coverage premium of $2,069 compared to $2,329. Ford F-150 insurance is the most expensive in South Carolina, with an average annual premium of $3,011. F-150 rates are still 10% lower than the $3,336 statewide average for full coverage.New Hampshire drivers pay the least overall…
It wasn't that long ago that the Federal Reserve, the central bank for the United States, was worrying that annual inflation would surpass 9% in the middle of 2022. Inflation cooled to 2.4% in September 2024, according to consumer price index data released by the Labor Department on Oct. 10. Speaking as an economist and finance professor, I think this could be a big…
Hurricane Milton is the latest sign that Florida lawmakers need to do much more to shore up the rickety property insurance market and keep the state viable for homeowners. "They are in a strong financial position to act as financial first responders to Hurricane Milton," Mark Friedlander, spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group,…
BUTLER— Michelle Rock might have been in jeopardy had she waited to undergo her first mammogram at 40, the age when screenings for women considered to be at low risk of developing breast cancer are covered by health insurance. "You may not always find something in a self-exam," said Rock, a Butler Township resident and today a faculty member at Butler County…
Insurers said they won’t eliminate water damage coverage when taking out Citizens policies this fall
A Florida- based property insurer that was recently eliminating coverage for non-weather-related water damage from policies taken out of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has told agents and executives of Citizens that it will provide limited water damage coverage in planned takeouts in October and November. In a phone call with a Citizens…
Wells Fargo& Company has released its third quarter 2024 financial results. The financial results are available online at https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/investor-relations/quarterly-earnings/ and on a Form 8- K filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 11, 2024, and available on the SEC’ s website at www.sec.gov.
Two amendments placed on the November ballot by the Florida Legislature involve tax money. It’ s the part between $50,000 and $75,000 of a home’ s value as applied to the tax bases of all local governments except schools. But it could reduce taxes paid of all governmental agencies except schools, on the exemption that now excludes valuations between $50,000 and…
—Former President Trump laid out his pitch to strengthen the auto industry in an economic address in Detroit on Thursday, proposing to make interest on car loans fully tax deductible, pledging to renegotiate trade deals and vowing to use tariffs to target foreign auto imports. Trump also said he would notify Mexico and Canada that he would invoke the six-year…
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from European Central Bank,“ For all variables, only a small fraction of differences between natives and immigrants-around 30%- can be explained by differences in demographics. For more information on this research see: Immigration and the Distribution of Income, Consumption and Wealth In the Euro Area:…
