[ad_1] CNN — More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency, however, warned that the estimate has limitations and should be interpreted with caution. The …
Read More »Medicare enrollees won’t pay more than $35 a month for insulin as new drug provisions kick in
[ad_1] CNN — Senior citizens and other Medicare enrollees can now get a break on the cost of their insulin. They won’t pay more than $35 a month for each insulin prescription that’s covered by their Medicare Part D plan. And they won’t be subject to a deductible for insulin. …
Read More »‘This was a hate crime’: Interracial family may soon be homeless as authorities still search for the cause of fire that engulfed their home last year
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: In this series finale of “This is Life with Lisa Ling,” the show profiles interracial couples. The series airs this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. CNN — A year after his Tennessee home was burned down and a racial slur was spray-painted on his property, Alan Mays …
Read More »British nurses set to launch historic strike, as pay and staffing crises threaten the NHS
[ad_1] London CNN — Nurses across much of the UK are set to launch a historic strike on Thursday, as they prepare to walk out of hospitals and onto picket lines after several years of falling pay and declining standards left the country’s nationalized health care system in a state …
Read More »Biden uses Florida’s ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’ as foils for his closing midterm pitch
[ad_1] CNN — When President Joe Biden rallied Democrats in Florida on Tuesday for a final-stretch campaign stop, he finally landed in the state his advisers have long eyed as the ideal backdrop for his warnings against “mega-MAGA” Republicans. For months, Biden and his team had been hoping to use …
Read More »Opinion: The IRS failed to make an important tax change for working parents
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Kara Alaimo, an associate professor in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, writes about issues affecting women and social media. She was spokeswoman for international affairs in the Treasury Department during the Obama administration. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View …
Read More »Treasury Department will assess how extreme weather is increasing insurance rates
[ad_1] CNN — The Treasury Department announced on Tuesday it is launching an assessment of worsening extreme weather and its impact on the cost of insurance. As climate change is making storms stronger and more destructive, Treasury officials told CNN they want to take a hard look at how climate-related …
Read More »Five takeaways from the Georgia Senate debate
[ad_1] CNN — When Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker met to debate in the already contentious Georgia Senate race, all the focus was on how personal allegations against Walker would roil the first – and likely only – debate in the campaign. The allegations that Walker paid …
Read More »Hurricane Ian: Florida death toll soars to 76 after Ian demolished entire communities
[ad_1] CNN — Newly homeless Floridians are struggling to restart their lives while rescuers scramble to find any remaining signs of life among the wreckage of Hurricane Ian. In some cases, emergency workers are juggling both unimaginable tasks. “Some of the guys on Pine Island, they lost everything, but they’re …
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