Headline News Archive

2022

December

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• 3 ways student borrowers were protected in 2022. The Biden administration’s new Borrower Defense to Repayment rule protects students from repaying their federal student loans if those loans “were taken

• The age of free online returns is ending. Retailers have subtly discouraged multi-size ordering — a process known as bracketing — and returns in general by omitting shipping labels from delivery packages even

November

23

• Student loan debt repayment pause extended. The Biden administration is extending its student loan repayment pause — which was set to expire at the end of the year — into 2023 while

17

• Consumer groups want grocers to ditch digital-only deals. A coalition of consumer groups is asking grocery chains to rethink their digital-only coupons, saying the deals discriminate against people who don’t have

14

• U.S. fines airlines $7.5 m and they must refund customers for cancelled flights. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced that the department is assessing fines totaling $7.5 million against six airlines, and the DOT is ordering those airlines to

02

• Americans fed up with tiny airline seats flood FAA with complaints. Fed up with being crammed in alongside other unhappy customers, passengers flooded the agency with nearly 25,000 comments.  While many stuck to

01

• Sharp spike in Black, Asian and Latino homeownership. Helped by pandemic-era stimulus programs, Black, Latino and Asian households saw the sharpest increase in homeownership in 2021 since the Great Recession, when all their levels

October

27

• U.S. mortgage rates soar past 7%. Mortgage rates barreled past the 7 percent mark to their highest level since 2002, as the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases, meant to combat

18

• Applying for Biden’s student loan forgiveness? Here’s what to know. After weeks of waiting, student loan borrowers can now apply for President Biden’s program to receive up to $20,000 in debt cancellation. Applicants have

17

• You can now buy hearing aids over the counter. For the first time, adults with mild to moderate hearing loss in the US will be able to buy over-the-counter hearing aids.  The White

04

• Few customers get refunds for Zelle fraud. Reports of scams and fraud on the bank-owned payment network Zelle are surging, but banks have refused to refund customers for most of their losses

September

29

• Student loan debt relief program launches in October. The Department of Education will provide up to $20,000 in debt cancellation with loans held by the federal government to Pell Grant recipients, and up to $10,000

22

• Air passengers could see sweeping reforms and easier refunds. After decades of laissez-faire enforcement, the Department of Transportation is proposing changes to clarify the vague language airlines use to determine “significant delays,”

01

• Bank of America tests no-down-payment mortgages for minorities. Bank of America Corp. started a trial program aimed at helping first-time homebuyers in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods by offering mortgages that don’t

• The best times to find cheap flights. Google Flights data showed prices for domestic flights have usually been their lowest between 21 and 60 days out. Those prices tend to bottom out around 44 days

August

30

• Inside the rise of 'stealerships' and shady car buying. Ten people could go into a dealership and each pay a wildly different amount to buy the same exact vehicle. With supply-chain problems creating

24

• Who qualifies for $10,000 in student debt cancellation?. Under the plan, borrowers can qualify for up to $10,000 in student loan forgiveness, and recipients of Pell Grants are eligible for an additional $10,000 in forgiveness.

• Beware of fake warnings in text messages. Scammers pose as a bank or pretend to be from Amazon and send a fake text about suspicious activity on your account or a

18

• Military veterans are more vulnerable to scams than civilians. Go Navy Tax Services seemed like a great option for sailors looking for help during tax season. Situated just outside the gates of Naval Base

• Dept of ED cancels more ITT student loan debt. The Department of Education said that it will cancel $3.9 billion in student loan debt for 208,000 students who attended the now-defunct for-profit ITT Technical Institute --

04

• New airline refund rules may be coming. Under the proposal, airlines and ticket agents would have to refund consumers when they “significantly” change their flights. This would apply to domestic

01

• Corporate landlords ‘aggressively’ evicted tenants during pandemic. Four major corporate landlords filed thousands of evictions while federal moratorium orders were still standing, using aggressive tactics to force out tenants at the height

July

26

• LinkedIn privacy settings you should change now. LinkedIn has dozens of data, privacy and advertising settings you can control.  If you do only one thing make yourself anonymous while looking at

25

• We need to keep building houses, even if no one wants to buy. While the challenge for builders, in the short term, might be that they have too many homes and not enough buyers, the challenge for the

05

• Insurers and employers have to reveal health care prices. Insurers and some employers are now required to publicly disclose what they pay hospitals, doctors and other medical providers — an unprecedented look at data