Everglades City officials want to sort a messy and often drawn-out code enforcement process that frequently ends in reduced fines and forgone administrative fees. The city’s code enforcement board on Tuesday cut one landowner’s code violation fees to $7,500 from $75,250, plus administrative costs. It also continued for a second time the amount of administrative […]
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Short sellers recoup losses as rally in US stocks loses steam
By Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – Short sellers have been raking it in over the last 30 days as receding bets of an early interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve triggered a selloff in the equity market. Traders have made a mark-to-market profit of more than $25 billion up to Thursday from covering […]
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massachusetts billed […]
Broward schools failed to recoup more than $300,000 from caps and gowns vendors
The Broward School District has been unable to collect more than $300,000 that auditors say were overbilled by a former supplier of graduation caps and gowns, a new audit shows. The district issued a demand letter dated Oct. 24, 2023, to Chuck Puleri and Associates, the district’s former vendor for Herff Jones graduation products, for […]
Oregon seeks to recoup overpayments to unemployed. Judge to decide if it’s legal
Rowan Hayes was cautiously optimistic when she read a Dec. 6, 2023, letter from the Oregon Employment Department saying she was eligible for unemployment benefits she received during the pandemic and would be getting a refund on money the department had ordered her to pay back. The letter, dated 10 days after the Statesman Journal […]