Dear Moneyist, I was married and didn’t qualify for the $1,200 stimulus check based on my 2018 tax returns. I am now divorced and filed my 2019 tax returns separately. It seems that millions of stimulus payments have already gone out. Where is my stimulus check? Will I ever receive one — or is it […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway seems to prefer the S&P 500 to his own company’s stock. See full story. Wall Street sees plenty of upside for these downtrodden tech stocks Shares of companies including Micron Technology, Western Digital and Motorola Solutions have fallen this year. See full story. Fed says pandemic has […]
I’ve mentioned before that Social Security is now dipping into its reserves—the so-called “trust fund”—to pay benefits. That’s because the system isn’t taking in enough cash from payroll taxes, which is how the gargantuan Social Security program—by far the single biggest source of federal spending—is financed. Read: Another victim of COVID-19: Social Security Prior to […]
Dear Catey, My wife and I are 58. She will retire at 62 and I at 67. Our annual retirement income at 67 will be approximately $95,000 from Social Security, pensions and investments. We would like to find an affordable, friendly place to rent during the winter months, that is warm and as close as […]
WASHINGTON — As the nation begins to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, some people are looking to the skies — and experts don’t necessarily like what they see, arguing there are not enough safeguards in place to protect passengers and crew. While air travel has fallen sharply due to the virus, the airports are open and […]
Along with everyone else in the world, President Trump wants a coronavirus vaccine now. Or, if not now, then “prior to the end of the year,” as he said at the White House on Friday, which Moncef Slaoui, the drug company executive the president tapped to head the effort, called a “very credible” timetable. By […]
Gunmen killed 24 people in the attack, including at least 11 mothers The cold-blooded murders of 24 women, children and babies at a hospital in the Afghan capital were horrific enough. But as Frederic Bonnot made his way through the bullet-riddled maternity unit, he realised something more. Warning: Readers may find details in this story […]
On May 7, Smithfield Foods meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., site of one of the biggest outbreaks of the coronavirus, reopened after coronavirus infections swept through the workforce. A 20-year veteran of the company described to Yahoo News her experience of returning to work on May 11 after taking a COVID-19 test four days […]
WASHINGTON — Federal officials responding to the coronavirus pandemic are concerned about the rapidly rising number of cases in Palm Beach County, Fla., according to an internal Trump administration document reviewed by Yahoo News. The document, a May 15 daily interagency update on the nation’s coronavirus response circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, notes […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday again denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a staffer in the 1990s, and offered frank advice to prospective voters disturbed by the accusations. “ “I think they should vote their heart. And if they believe Tara Reade they probably shouldn’t vote for me. I wouldn’t vote for me […]