Payments
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Health
With Cyberattack Fix Weeks Away, Health Providers Slam United
Hospitals, doctors and clinics expressed frustration that they will have to wait even longer for reimbursements after hackers paralyzed the largest U.S. billing clearinghouse.
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Business
When Social Security Becomes a Debt Collector
Kree Flowers had recently gotten married and decided to log into her account on the Social Security Administration’s website in February to check on the status of her retirement benefits. She was shocked to see a big red number at the top of the page ...
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World
Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
The justice failed to repay much, perhaps all, of the $267,230 loan. His benefactor wiped the slate clean, with ethical and potential tax consequences.
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Business
It’s Time to Pay Your Student Loans. What Happens if You Fall Behind?
Missed payments will be reported as a forbearance rather than as delinquencies. But your credit score could still be affected.
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Business
Student Loans Come Due Again: Many Borrowers Will Lose a Lifeline
The payment pause freed up money that gave people breathing room — or allowed them to help family members in need. They will soon have to budget for that expense.
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Business
The Student Loan Payment Pause Is Ending. Here’s How to Prepare.
A deal to raise the debt ceiling would require borrowers of federal student loans to resume paying for the first time since early in the pandemic.
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Business
I.R.S. Decides Most Special State Payments Are Not Taxable
The agency offered the guidance that it had asked millions of taxpayers in 21 states to wait for before filing their returns.
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Business
Wall Street Is Counting on a Debt Limit Trick That Could Entail Trouble
If the debt limit is breached, investors expect Treasury to put bond payments first. It’d be politically and practically fraught.
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World
A Good Job Is a Gift That Keeps Giving
This article is part of Times Opinion’s Holiday Giving Guide 2022. Read more about the guide in a note from Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. I have returned to jobs again and again in this newsletter in 2022. In an April newsletter I wrote,“Jobs ...
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Business
Their Budgets Flush, Many States Are Sending Checks to Residents
Millions of Americans received stimulus checks from the federal government during the depths of the pandemic. This year, many states have a ...