Personal Finance

A newly passed bill allows Pennsylvania to return unclaimed funds to a person without a claim. The law was originally proposed by state Treasurer Stacy Garrity last year.

The United Way of Bucks County launched LIFT to help residents who are employed yet financially vulnerable.

Lawrence Kozak has been charged with theft and related crimes.

About 50,000 residents with low income don’t claim one federal tax credit, which means lower tax refund checks.

The Biden administration expects the debt relief program will help 30 million people nationwide.

Career Connected Learning PHL plans to hire 8,000 young people and expand year-round, work-based activities for an additional 2,000, replacing the city’s WorkReady program.

While inflation has cooled significantly over the last year, recent measures show prices are still climbing faster than the central bank would like.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new rule Tuesday capping late fees on credit cards, a move designed to save customers an estimated $10 billion a year.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the average credit card late fee is $32.

The companies are teaming up, in part, to expand their payment network.

State officials said an estimated 1 million Pennsylvanians hold some amount of medical debt, and many are subjected to debt collectors.

An increasingly common scamming tactic is a phone call from a number with a fake caller ID that reads “PECO,” the company said.

The change could potentially eliminate billions of dollars in fee revenue for the nation’s biggest banks, which were gearing up for a battle even before Wednesday’s announceme

In a surprise move, the Biden administration announced it is fast-tracking a change that will erase the debts of many federal student loan borrowers after just 10 years.

What to make of all the student loan news this year? We have three takeaways, and a literary analogy.