Policy News tracks changes to public rules as they are filed: proposed and final regulations, enacted bills, agency guidance, comment deadlines and injunctions halting implementation. Items are short, dated and linked to the underlying document. Read by compliance staff, administrators and advocates who cannot afford a missed deadline.
Filings that change public administration: proposed rules, enacted legislation, guidance letters, comment deadlines and injunctions halting operations.
Old systems survive because replacing them is harder, slower, and riskier than it looks. Here is how legacy technology actually works in government, and what catching up really costs.
A joint Georgetown–Michigan research center will use the three-year grant to help states cut payment errors without blocking eligible families.
A small set of sources and a few habits can replace the endless scroll.
The 2.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment announced in October 2025 raises the average retired-worker benefit by about $49 a month starting with January payments.
Social Security's annual raise is a formula, not a vote in Congress. Here is how the calculation works and what it means for the benefit increase that took effect in January 2026.
Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is 2.