As welfare accounts for almost a third of public spending in 2024-5, it is inevitably a target when savings are needed. Put ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a slew of actions aimed at curtailing climate-related regulation ...

If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop.

The SSA is launching a three-phase cost-cutting initiative focused on enhancing identity verification, reducing fees, and ...

The SSA has announced a new cost-cutting initiative aimed at reducing operational costs and enhancing efforts to combat ...

This October, the SSA will determine the new cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) by comparing the CPI-W data from July, August, ...

We found that when adding a 16-year-old driver to a parent’s policy, the average car insurance cost jumped from $2,603 per year to $5,011 per year. That’s an average increase of 103%.

Analysis of data over almost a decade suggested fewer adults are getting help from councils in England despite a rise in requests. Higher care provider fees and stretched council budgets are leading ...

The Minister for Social Protection has announced that people may earn up to €14,000 using the rent-a-room scheme and keep their means-tested social welfare payment. Many social welfare payments ...

The costs of a climate policy are the abatement costs of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) (or other greenhouse gases). The standard measure of the benefits of a climate policy is the social ...

Inadequate social security is the main driver of food bank need ... Poverty comes at a significant cost to the individual, but also to the economy and wider society, with downstream costs to public ...