I’m moving out of NY to another state soon for my masters and the school requires that I either have full coverage health insurance or I purchase theirs which is $4,500+. Is there any health insurance plan either in NY or nationally that I can enroll in which would allow me to be seen for any medical purpose out of my home state? My current insurance is health first but it is an HMO which only allows me to be seen at UC/ED for emergent purposes only. The school requires non-emergent purpose insurance as well.

I filed my taxes through TaxAct and last night I received an email from their reviewer (a very generic "we need more time to look at this" email) - After I received this, I started receiving emails from other personal Gmail accounts to TaxAct with my email CC'd - one of them actually greeted me directly, as though I were the TaxAct representative. I'm not sure how this happened, because when I look at the original message it appears to be addressed only to me. The only thing I can even think of is that perhaps these other people were BCC'd on the email addressed to me? Because they for sure have my email copied in their replies. This seems like a huge breach of data privacy as I now have full names and email addresses of their clients, and they have mine. I tried calling their customer support this morning and the rep I spoke with didn't seem to understand why I was upset - and when I asked to speak to a supervisor I kind of got placated and passed around with a "they'll call you". I'm not sure if this truly breaches any kind of data privacy law or how I even begin to handle it. Location: California

Hi guys, new home owner here, and I'm currently in a dilemma. So I bought my house a couple months ago and I had a Tesla Charger installed by an electrican that my dad found out about from a friend. After the work was done, I applied for a rebate from PSEG for the EV Charger that they're offering and I got an email from them saying I need to provide a proof of payment to the electrican. So here's the thing, all I have is an invoice, I payed with cash once the work was completed. I sent PSEG the invoice and told them I payed with cash, they replied saying that is fine, I would just need a paid invoice saying I paid with cash from the electrican. I sent the electrican multiple texts, on different days, even called him multiple times but no answer. I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I know he's certified, I have his electrical license which also has his address.....Intrusive thoughts are telling me to show up to his house Any ideas?

Hello everyone, I have a question. I was recently involved in a not-at-fault accident with an Allstate-insured driver. Unfortunately, my own insurance canceled the night before the accident, so I did not have PIP coverage. Allstate has informed me that I’m responsible for a $7,400 medical bill, despite them reserving $5,500 for future medical expenses related to the accident. If they have funds set aside for medical expenses, why can’t those be applied to the existing bills? I do not feel they are actuinh in good faith. Would it be advisable to seek legal assistance at this point? Thank you for any insights.

I got involved with them on my 18th birthday, which was in November. I left at the end of December and told them I was moving to Houston. I got the life insurance policy when I joined since it was required, and I canceled it yesterday. Today, I got a call from the agent who recruited me. I told him I couldn't talk, but he said the contract required me to keep the life insurance policy for 17 months. I hung up, blocked him, and called my cousin since he also joined at the beginning of 2024 (recruited by the same person) and left shortly after. He canceled his policy as well. I told him about the call, and he said the agent called him too when he canceled his policy, telling him the same thing. He told the agent he didn't want it, and the agent said he would be sent to collections or something like that. I don't know if that's true but I don't know what to do.

Last month, I was unfortunately the victim of identity theft and a scam. A scammer from Nigeria hacked my social media accounts, emails, and phone number. Worst of all, they somehow withdrew $3,000 from my checking account and spent it on cryptocurrency. At one point, they even asked me to send them nudes, which was terrifying. As you can imagine, I have been severely traumatized by this violation. I immediately filed a police report and contacted my bank to report the fraudulent transactions. Despite submitting supporting documents—such as emails showing my passwords were changed and login attempts were made from Nigeria while I live in the U.S.—Bank of America has denied my claim twice, insisting that I authorized these charges based on my purchase history. What’s most frustrating is that I have never purchased cryptocurrency in my life, so I am insulted to be accused of stealing my own money. As a young college student, $3,000 is a huge amount, and I feel furious and helpless. I am considering filing a claim with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but I’m unsure if they can help me recover my money. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to hire an attorney. What are my options? How can I get compensated? I feel betrayed by the bank I’ve been with for 10 years. If anyone has experienced something similar, please let me know.

Pretext: In michigan, 2019 Equinox. So the girlfriend rear ended a trailer, resulted in a decent amount of damage to the front end. Part of the damage was the axle being ripped out of the transmission, loss of fluid and all that goes with that. She files a claim, we take it to a preferred body shop that is a Cadillac dealer. Repairs were made, we pick it up after it’s ‘finished’. I am the one who picked it up and noticed almost immediately there are shifting problems that did not exist before the accident. Called the body shop and they said they would be the first step, so the car was parked and we went out of town for the 4th of July weekend, dropped he car back to the body shop the following Tuesday. Have waited this long for an adjuster to rule that it is not loss related due to it being internal to the transmission. And because he can’t see an impact to the transmission, it would not be covered. I understand it would be hard to prove the problem didn’t exist if it were left only my word. But Progressive won’t pay the diagnostic hours to find out what the problem even is. Am I out of line expecting more out of this? For a car that operated flawlessly before an accident, shouldn’t I expect the same after repairs? What should the next steps be? When I asked about an appeal process the adjuster said they’re really isn’t one, and two supervisors already agreed with him. Am I SOL?

Just wanting to throw this out there - if you are enrolled in a Voya retirement plan, they rolled out this new "AI advisor" service to accounts. It allows you to have a Empower-like interface to where it can calculate your retirement income based on savings from various sources including Social Security. That part of it is pretty nice, no complaints there. Though I am a bit concerned about the visibility of other account data to my employer, though I'm sure there's privacy practices in place against that. But when I was clicking around and not intentionally doing anything, there was a orange notice icon by a bell at the top. I clicked that and it had a dialog stating "Updates Needed for Plan Accuracy" - and that's where it's very alarming. I'm under age 30. I should NOT be in bonds. I DO NOT want to be in bonds. Nor do I want to be invested international. For some reason, this AI advisor tool wanted me to re-balance to be 35% in bonds, and 30% international, with 5% of my contributions going to fees for the re-balancing. So be careful with Voya.

So this may slightly be my fault but I need to vent and need options. I have had pets best for 2 years. My golden retriever blew her ACL and I took her to a surgeon and they confirmed it. The entire process took 5 months. I called pets best to see how to proceed, they said to pay the bill and then send everything to them. So I did. They just came back and said that they will not reimburse me because I don’t wait 6 months to have the surgery. WTF!!! and why would you not tell me when I called to ask how to proceed?!? Am I just out of luck? Or do you think that this is worth fighting? I am out $7k now. This is why I had pet insurance in the first place!!!

My daughter is going through a lot of PT/OT that is being billed via a local hospital outpatient center. I talked to the insurance company administrator for this portion of my insurance and I ensured that the provider (hospital) we were going to would be treated as in-network (see \*\*\*\* paragraph below, as they guaranteed it and I couldn't find a provider that would do this within 30 miles of my home). To do this, they had to negotiate and worked out an agreement. On top of this, the provider has to get pre-authorization in blocks of visits so no visit has occurred without someone at the insurance company pre-authorising these. My certificate of coverage does say that I do have PT/OT benefits but there's two kinds of it, one that is based on a hospital stay and one that is based medical necessity . They both have the same copays and costs, so it shouldn't matter but regardless, there are two ways one can get PT/OT via my insurance plan. The provider has submitted these PT/OT requests to the hospital administrator Anthem. Anthem has rejected these with the code: "\*00NYP Your policy will cover this service only if it follows surgery or a prior hospital stay for the same condition. Please refer to the section of your contract or benefit booklet that describes the coverage for this type of service." \*\*\*This is what my certificate of coverage at a glance says about CT/PT/OT: "Chiropractic Treatment, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Network Coverage Each office visit to a network provider, including related radiology and diagnostic laboratory services, is subject to a single $25 copayment. No more than one copayment per visit will be assessed. MPN guarantees access to network benefits. If there are no network providers in your area, you must contact MPN prior to receiving services to arrange for network benefits. Therapy must be prescribed by a qualified provider." AND "Physical therapy following a related hospitalization or related inpatient or outpatient surgery is subject to a $25 copayment per visit. Physical therapy must start within six months of your discharge from the hospital or the date of your outpatient surgery and be completed within 365 days from the date of hospital discharge or outpatient surgery. Medically necessary physical therapy is covered under the Managed Physical Medicine Program when not covered under the Hospital Program (see page 12)." From looking at how they are capitalising things, I believe Managed Physical Network/MPN is yet another administrator for PT/OT like United Healthcare, Anthem, and Carelon for medical, hospital, and behavioral. Am I right? So they are not sending it to the right place? Or it is coded incorrectly? I'm wondering why this provider is having so much trouble getting reimbursed the right away since there's been a lot of communication already with SOMEONE and it should all be set.