HUD wants to see what happens when you give cash directly to renters, instead of traditional vouchers. At least one California housing authority is interested.

Colleges are just beginning to receive long-overdue FAFSA data. Meanwhile, students who've been accepted to college still face weeks before they receive aid offers.

A new federal student aid application is blocking some students from completing their forms. Now California legislators are trying to extend the deadline for state student aid.

So-called point-of-sale donations have sharply increased in recent years, bringing in hundreds of millions a year. But the requests to "round up" your bill for charity have really taken off.

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. Critics promised a lawsuit.

The cost of auto and home insurance is rising much faster than overall inflation, thanks in part to a string of billion-dollar storms. A growing number of people are going without insurance.

(OLLI) at Southern Oregon University offers a course in its spring catalog on "Planning as a Solo Ager,"

Major insurers in central, southern and eastern Oregon have dramatically pulled back, forcing some homeowners to go to an insurer of last resort.

Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggests that people who live on or near burned-over land consider getting flood insurance policies.

That's why the Federal Trade Commission--FTC--created the one-stop website identitytheft.gov, so people can move quickly when they discover fraud has been committed. FTC staffers Ken Abbe and Breena Roos.

Allison Sesso, the President & CEO of RIP Medical Debt

As the FAIR Plan writes more fire-insurance policies, homeowners complain about poor service, rising costs and threats of getting kicked off.