Taxpayers in the Empire State will soon receive a refund to help offset rising living costs. Part of the 2025-2026 New York State budget allocates funds for inflation refund checks. The onetime ...

The check is in the mail for millions of New York taxpayers who are looking forward to receiving their inflation refund checks from the state. The checks of up to $400 started being sent out Friday.

New York’s first-ever inflation refund checks are now being sent to 8.2 million households across the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday, calling the initiative part of her ongoing efforts to put ...

New York state has mailed out more than 8 million "inflation relief" rebate checks to taxpayers over the past two months, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week. The first-ever program was part of a ...

Unlike specific assistance programs for food or energy, the governor called the money “unrestricted financial aid,” meaning recipients can spend it however they want. Hochul described the initiative ...

“I’ll never stop fighting to help your family address the rising cost of living,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as ...

New laws will impact students, including sales tax exemptions on some university foods and warning labels on social media.

If you haven’t received your New York inflation refund check, keep watching your mail. The state began sending out the checks to over 8 million people in September. The Tax Department said then it ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced that New York State will be issuing inflation refund checks. So many people and families are looking forward to this money but ...