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Money left in a health FSA when the plan year ends is forfeited unless your employer allows a carryover or a grace period. The IRS ceilings are $3,400 to contribute and $680 to roll over in 2026.

The federal rule meant to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for one has been dead for over a year. The fines haven't stopped.

A rebuilt flock and softer demand turned the 2025 egg shortage into a glut. Shoppers are winning; many of the farms producing those eggs are not.

Chocolate makers locked in cocoa at last year's prices, retail prices rarely retrace, and the bean market has already bounced back. Here is what that means for your candy bowl.

The fall switch to winter gasoline shaves real cost off every gallon. This year, it is being swamped by crude oil near $90 a barrel and a record September at the pump.

Nearly every major cruise line is incorporated in Panama, Liberia or Bermuda, with ships flying Panama, Bahamas or Maltese flags instead of the Stars and Stripes. It's a structure worth billions in avoided U.S. tax, and it sets the wages of the crew who serve you.

Social Security's 2027 raise won't be announced until Oct. 14 — not because of red tape, but because the law requires inflation data that doesn't exist yet.

In Manila the bonus is guaranteed by a 1975 law. In Memphis, it's whatever the employer feels like giving. Here's why the gap exists.

The fight over the office thermostat has a real physiological and historical explanation, and it isn't just personal pickiness.

Larry Ellison's $7.5 billion Oracle stock-sale plan lasted one day in public view before he canceled it — a sequence only possible because of a decades-old SEC disclosure rule.

A 1990s Supreme Court case about dry-cleaning equipment set the legal test that lets Tiffany, UPS and T-Mobile each claim a single color as their own.

Rental car fuel policies are built to collect for gas you didn't use -- from EZFuel's flat fees to inflated per-gallon refill prices at drop-off.

Private-label groceries hit a record 21.3% of US dollar sales in 2025, growing nearly three times faster than national brands — and grocers are betting the shift is permanent.

A 19th-century cash crunch forced Japan to shorten its fiscal year and move the start to April. The fix outlived the crisis, and now governs hiring, school terms and earnings season for the world's fourth-largest economy.

Sony's PlayStation Store settlement covers more than 4.4 million people, and up to a quarter of the $7.85 million goes to legal fees before anyone gets paid — a pattern that explains why most class-action payouts amount to pocket change.

DoorDash and Uber Eats don't show a fixed delivery time -- they show a live prediction that updates itself repeatedly, and the model behind it is doing real engineering work.

Pay transparency laws forced companies to publish salary ranges. Few laws say how wide those ranges can be, and research shows women pay the price.

Gift cards are protected by federal law for years. Loyalty and rewards points aren't, and companies can wipe them out overnight.

Nvidia offered to bankroll smaller AI clouds' chip purchases in exchange for a slice of their revenue. Weeks later, its own employees flagged the antitrust risk.

The FTC's click-to-cancel rule was struck down in 2025 and still hasn't come back — which is why quitting some subscriptions still means picking up the phone.