When her hospital bill arrived, she didn’t immediately feel angry. What she felt first was confusion, because the number staring back at her didn’t line up with what she had expected after insurance. She refreshed the insurance portal more than once, convinced something hadn’t processed yet, because the alternative meant admitting that she simply did…
When Caleb Hammer opened this episode of Financial Audit, he didn’t bother with his usual buildup or polite framing. He called it what he believed it was almost immediately, saying this might be the dumbest guest he had ever had on the show, a claim that felt extreme until the conversation unfolded and made it…
When Caleb Hammer opened this episode of Financial Audit, he didn’t bother with his usual buildup or polite framing. He called it what he believed it was almost immediately, saying this might be the dumbest guest he had ever had on the show, a claim that felt extreme until the conversation unfolded and made it…
Prescription drugs have become one of the biggest budget stressors for American households. Even people with insurance often face high copays, limited coverage, or medications that are suddenly dropped from formularies. For families managing chronic conditions, those costs add up fast and quietly strain monthly finances. That pressure is why a new discount prescription program…
Middle-class Americans are often described as financially stable, but that label no longer matches how many people actually feel month to month. Paychecks still come in, bills still get paid, and on paper everything looks fine, yet the margin for error keeps shrinking. What used to feel manageable now feels tight, even for households doing…
New work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, have started taking effect in additional states under a new law supported by President Donald Trump. The changes, which are already shaping how low-income Americans qualify for food assistance, aim to move more adults into employment or job training as a condition of…
