His father is 75 and has been seriously ill for months, moving in and out of the hospital with a condition that has gotten significantly worse over the past two weeks. He also has heart problems on top of his current illness, and the family has reached the point where they don’t believe he has…
Her stepfather’s mother passed away five years ago, and at some point after that he appears to have simply never told TIAA she was gone. The trust she’d been receiving payments from should have terminated at her death, but the $2,500 monthly deposits kept coming anyway, landing in his personal bank account, not a joint…
Their mom died last August. There are three of them, all in their mid-forties, and their oldest sister was named successor trustee of their mom’s revocable living trust. She’d always had her act together, and when she said to let her handle the paperwork and she’d be in touch when it was done, it felt…
She just finished her junior year of high school, has a 4.2 GPA and a 1440 SAT score, and has been planning for college with a $60,000 fund her grandmother left her. Then her parents told her something they’d apparently been avoiding for a while, which is that her father hasn’t filed or paid his…
Her mom runs a small baking business out of a temporary shop space, working Friday through Sunday completely alone. She sells out almost every Friday, which means she has nothing left for the rest of the weekend and spends her nights baking until midnight trying to keep up. Her back is in bad shape. She…
A woman in California who receives food stamps, housing assistance, cash benefits tied to unpaid child support, and health insurance coverage through state programs is now under investigation for welfare fraud. The concerns center on a pattern of unreported changes to her household that stretched across multiple years and involved several different benefit programs simultaneously….
