In This Issue What changed: An extended 2025 return filed after October 15, 2026 draws a 5% monthly penalty. Today's habit: Match your 2026 tax payments. Scam Alert: Fake Medicare.gov ads in search results, flagged by the FTC on September 28, 2026. On the calendar: 2027 plan
In This Issue What changed: For 2027, your stand-alone drug plan can raise its premium past 2026's $50 monthly limit. Today's habit: Get an IRS IP PIN. The Question Everyone's Asking: Missing 2025 inflation data and your 2027 IRMAA brackets. On the calendar:
In This Issue What changed: Standalone drug plans average $36 a month in 2027, and your plan letter shows yours. Today's habit: Save your drugs on Medicare.gov. The Fine Print: Medicare & You 2027, page 13, and your December 7 lock. On the calendar: Plan Finder shows
In This Issue What changed: A plan-exit letter dated October 2, 2026 reopens Medigap without health questions. Today's habit: Check your Medicare claims. The Number: 7%, the IRS rate on unpaid tax from October 1, 2026. On the calendar: FTC scam roundtable, September 29, 2026. What Changed
In This Issue * What changed: From October 1, 2026, 2027 plans may pitch you by mail and email, never by cold call. * Today's habit: Check your 2026 RMD progress. * Ignore This Week: 2027 COLA forecasts before the October 14 data. * On the calendar: Medicare Open Enrollment, October 15
What Changed The Federal Reserve raised its target range by a quarter point on September 16, 2026, to 3.75% to 4.00%. The vote was 12 to 0, and the Fed's statement gave one reason: inflation remains elevated. First hike since 2023. A single quarter-point move
Forbes published its 2026 list of the 400 richest Americans this week. It puts them at a combined $8 trillion, up from $6.6 trillion in 2025, and much of the gain traces to the AI and data-center boom. None of that money gets mailed to you. What does
In This Issue What changed — nothing that touches your money. Why, in detail. Today's habit — clear the September 15 payment The Number — $150,000, the MAGI line at 65 On the calendar — September CPI, October 14, 2026 Nothing Changed Three things made noise last week. None of them
In This Issue Crude and the CPI-W — the August print lands September 11 Today's habit — check your safe harbour InnovAge and PACE — what a missed quarter changes for a participant The Question Everyone's Asking — a drug moved tiers in your ANOC Wi2Wi's $2.
In This Issue What changed — nothing that touches your money. Why, in detail. Today’s habit — find your 2024 MAGI The Number — the 2026 Part A hospital deductible, $1,736 On the calendar — August CPI lands September 11, 2026 Nothing Changed Estimates for the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment moved
What Changed CMS ended the subsidy that held standalone drug premiums down. On July 28, 2026, CMS announced that the Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration ends with this calendar year. For 2026, that demonstration cut $10 off the base beneficiary premium at participating standalone plans and capped any single plan&
The IRS set its fourth-quarter rates on August 21. Nothing moved. For individuals, the rate on both underpayments and overpayments holds at 7% a year, compounded daily, for the quarter beginning October 1, 2026, per Revenue Ruling 2026-15. And that 7% is what a shortfall costs you, charged