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Starting in tax year 2026, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) creates a 0.5% floor on individual itemized charitable deductions (only amounts exceeding 0.5% of AGI are deductible) and a 1% floor f...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking (the RISE committee) sharply narrowed which post‑baccalaureate programs qualify as “professional” for higher federal loan limits, settling on roughl...
A “professional degree” in current U.S. policy is primarily an administrative label the Department of Education uses to decide which graduate programs qualify for higher federal loan limits, not an ac...
The available reporting shows a recent federal policy change tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and Department of Education rulemaking that narrows which graduate programs are treated as “...
For tax year 2025, “miscellaneous” itemized deductions that were once deductible only to the extent they exceeded 2% of AGI have been removed from the federal individual income tax code — the TCJA sus...
A new federal provision—part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) enacted in 2025—creates a temporary federal income tax deduction for “qualified overtime compensation” (the time-and‑one‑half pre...
Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for federally funded Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, and marketplace premium tax credits; federal law limits full Medicaid access to U.S. citizens and certai...
The clean-energy tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) do not all simply “lapse in 2026”; instead, a post‑2024 GOP law—the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)—accelerated the phase‑o...
The U.S. Department of Education — under the Trump administration and implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — has proposed and begun rulemaking that excludes many nursing programs from t...
Lawmakers, professional associations, and higher-education negotiators offered competing rationales when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) altered federal definitions and program limits—supporter...
The key 2025 policy change behind your question is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and subsequent Department of Education regulatory work that narrows which programs qualify as “professional de...
The change came from the U.S. Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking work by the Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) Committee, not directly from a congressional standing commi...
The 2025 reclassification enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and related reconciliation legislation changes who can get Pell Grants and alters federal loan rules—most changes take effec...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and subsequent Department of Education rulemaking narrowed which students are eligible for larger loans and replaced the open-ended Grad PLUS with fixed annual a...