Headline News Archive

2021

October

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• 13 estados que cobran impuestos por recibir beneficios del Seguro Social. Saber qué estados cobran impuestos del Seguro Social podría ayudarte a tomar mejores decisiones sobre dónde deseas vivir cuando te

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• Estadounidenses desembolsan $175 dólares más por mes, por inflación. La escasez de suministro y el gasto público masivo han estimulado a la inflación de los precios, que según

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• How to tell real products from scams when shopping online. Try looking up a company’s one- and two-star reviews, which can tell you far more about the products (sometimes they can even reassure

04

• Senate confirms Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Senate narrowly approved President Joe Biden's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, giving the bureau a director* who is likely to

September

29

• Freddie Mac finds ‘pervasive’ bias in home appraisal industry. A study from the federal housing finance agency Freddie Mac adds to a growing body of research that finds racism in the appraisal

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• Companies are hoarding your personal data. How to get them to delete it. What data can you actually request to delete? When we say “your data,” we mean information like your name, phone number, email and

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• Financial pain points for older consumers. Ten years after its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint database serves as a powerful tool for individuals to file complaints

21

• Insurers restore deductibles, co-pays leaving patients with big bills. In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatment, waiving co-pays and

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• Cómo administrar tus tarjetas de crédito. Muchos estadounidenses tienen problemas para llevar la cuenta de sus tarjetas, pero solucionar el problema es complicado. Esto es lo que puedes hacer.

• La pandemia afectó tu economía. Esto debes hacer. Quizá perdiste tu trabajo. Tal vez te recortaron las horas. Quizá tuviste que hacerte cargo de alguien. Si tus ingresos decayeron de

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• Evita que una crisis de salud se convierta en una catástrofe financiera. Un poder notarial, un poder de atención médica y un testamento en vida pueden protegerte a ti y a tu familia

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• Equifax will now offer credit reports in Spanish. Equifax will offer Spanish-translated credit reports for free, both online and via mail.  The move will help more than 62 million Spanish speakers in the

• How you pay the rent may help your mortgage application. Later this month, a group of renters in the United States will get a new break when they try to become homeowners: Their history of

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• CFPB wants to hear hear from small business owners about access to credit. The CFPB is asking small business owners to share their experiences while trying to get a small business loan or during the process of getting

• HHS releases plan to lower drug prices. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released a comprehensive plan to lower drug prices. The Drug Pricing Plan is part of a broader

02

• New York extends eviction moratorium to January. New York State lawmakers agreed to extend sweeping protections against evictions into next year. The new agreement, which extends the moratorium through Jan.15 and was

• ‘El algoritmo me despidió’: un proyecto de ley de California apunta a cambiar la dura cultura laboral de Amazon. Los legisladores de California tienen a Amazon en la mira. Se espera que un proyecto de ley aprobado por la Asamblea llegue al Senado esta

August

31

• La forma de conducir y el historial crediticio ayudarían a la detección temprana de la demencia. El deterioro cerebral puede comenzar años antes de la aparición de síntomas. El comportamiento cotidiano puede arrojar advertencias.

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• The financial price for choosing not to get vaccinated. You could lose your job as more employers require workers to get vaccinated. If you’re opposed to being vaccinated, your employer-provided health insurance

• ¿Comprar o esperar? Una guía para cambiar de celular. Apple, Samsung y otras compañías quieren que sustituyamos nuestros teléfonos constantemente, pero muchos fallas tienen solución.

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• Fraud alert: Malicious QR codes. Con artists have added QR codes to a variety of familiar scams. Based on reports to the BBB Scam Tracker, these hoaxes include advance fee

• About 89% of rental assistance funds have not been distributed. The Emergency Rental Assistance Program, funded in the two federal pandemic relief packages passed over the last year, sputtered along in July, with just $1.7 billion

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• What's preventing Americans from getting the Emergency Broadband Benefit. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in our country, millions of Americans cannot connect to the internet because they can’t afford to, preventing them from

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• Privacy of streaming apps and devices: Watching TV that watches us. We reviewed the privacy protections in the top 10 streaming apps, as well as the top five streaming devices, that include programming directed at kids and

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• Seeking early signals of dementia in driving and credit scores. Learning your odds of eventually developing dementia — a pressing concern for many, especially those with a family history of it — requires medical testing