For about the past five years, Phoenix-based benefits consultant Jill Preston has been noticing something odd happening to her Tucson clients, in the course of her work helping elderly people and ...

A 20-something today has a one in four chance of becoming disabled before retirement, according to the Social Security Administration. While Social Security disability benefits can help, the average ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Hans Daniel Jasperson has over a decade of experience in public policy research, with an ...

A Missouri man who previously worked for the Federal Aviation Administration has pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri ...

On a chilly night in April 2023, Charlotte Walker got a text message. Her sister, 68-year-old Barbara Walker, was in jail and facing a felony. Barbara's crime: starting a fire to keep warm. Charlotte ...

In July 2025, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on a Wisconsin woman whose family feared her representative payee might have misused her funds. Representative payees are responsible for aiding ...

This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. Five years ago, the UK's financial landscape underwent a profound transformation with the ...

Louis May lost his $109,000 first home deposit to scammers. Now Australia's banks are taking measures against the security flaw the scammers used, via a system called "Confirmation of Payee". An ...

A payee is a person or business entity receiving a payment. If you're sending an invoice payment, the payee is the vendor, credit card company or government agency to whom you've written the check. If ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Social Security Administration is sending out new disability benefit payments exceeding $4,000 to thousands of retirees within the next few hours. The money may appear in bank accounts soon for ...