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Week of January 8, 2024
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New Consumer Protection Laws Taking Effect in 2024

Airlines Ranked for On-Time Performance


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Mouse Print*-- Verizon to Refund $100-Mil for Hidden Fees

mouse print If you had a postpaid Verizon Wireless cell or data plan since 2016, you may be entitled to up to $100 in a proposed class action settlement. The company was accused of tacking on junk fees to customers' bills which were not properly disclosed. That is our Mouse Print* story this week.


How to Put a Lid on Your Drug Costs in 2024

pills The WSJ offers some tips on how to save on prescription drugs. Sometimes not using your regular insurance company's drug benefit can be cheaper than using it. Tips are for both non-Medicare and Medicare recipients.


Beware the Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food

Consumer Reports groceries Consumer Reports tested 85 common grocery and food products and found that almost every one had some chemical plasticizers (phthalates), often at high levels. See their list of offending products including certain varieties of Coke, SlimFast, Yoplait yogurt, Wendy's chicken nuggets, Whopper with cheese, Cheerios, Chicken of the Sea salmon, Del Monte sliced peaches, and many more.


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Best Diets for 2024

scale U.S. News is out with its annual list of best diets. The top three are: the Mediterranean diet, DASH diet, and MIND diet. Here is how they came up with their rankings. For a second opinion, here are the results of a multi-decade study by Harvard which found that the quality of food in a low-carb diet helped keep off weight best.



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Most Deceptive Ads of 2023

Truth in Advertising ("TINA") has its nominations for the most misleading ads of 2023. As you watch this YouTube video, what you are seeing are snippets of the ads that TINA is complaining about and NOT ads inserted by YouTube.



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Bargain of the Week

Free Rolodex/Free-Form Personal Information Manager App

For at least the past decade, MrConsumer has relied on Rdex, a free app for Windows and Android, to store phone numbers, contact information, passwords, account numbers, and any other information that you can think of. It stores the information on blank index-like cards, that are instantly searchable. So if you want to save information about a person, just start a new card and list anything you want. I could not function without this little program! Just pop-up the program whenever you need it.

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Electric Cars That Qualify or Don't Qualify for Federal Tax Credit

The rules and amounts of federal tax credits are changing for 2024. Consumer Reports lists the various types and models of e-cars and which ones are qualified for which tax credits.

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