Covering the week’s most noteworthy business news impacting the Filipino-American and Global Filipino community.
by Annie Walters Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Nevada April is Financial Literacy Month. Social Security is a vital part of any financial plan. . Our online tools can help you understand your potential Social Security benefits and how they fit into your financial future. You should periodically review your Social Security Statement (Statement)…
CONTINUING its efforts to expand the supply of affordable housing, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has made $25 million available for affordable housing developments. In addition to these funds, Project Based Housing Choice vouchers and Project Based Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers are also available. The latest round of funding available is through…
Las Vegas – The Las Vegas Science and Technology Festival returns to the Las Vegas Valley with nine days of FREE educational events for the whole family. Kicking-off April 28, the festival features over 40 events and concludes with a Giant Science and Technology Expo at the World Market Center on May 6. The annual…
Q: WHILE driving back to the office from a work errand for my Manager, my car was rear ended. I sustained injuries as a result of which I underwent surgeries. I missed work for weeks but will need more time off for treatments. I am afraid to tell my employer about my need for more…
SAN FRANCISCO – Consul General Neil Ferrer met with Mind the Bridge (MTB) co-founder and CEO Marco Marinucci on March 20, 2023 at the MTB headquarters in San Francisco to discuss the work of MTB and possible partnerships in line with the development of the Philippine startup ecosystem. MTB is an international innovation advisory firm, which is an…
THE debtor is 50. Spouse is 48. They have two children, a son aged 18, and a daughter aged 16. Son is about to go to college out of state. Daughter is about to graduate from high school and applying for college in state. They expect that once son is in college and daughter is…
Dear Attorney Tan, I was driving home and was at a complete stop when another driver rear ended my car. I was not feeling well after the accident, as my back seemed very tight and stiff. I took some days off from work. After a week, I contacted the other driver’s insurance to report the…
EVER had a bad online shopping experience? Maybe you ordered one thing but got another. Or that new company never shipped your order, despite charging you. So, what do you do? If you can relate, you’re not alone. In 2022, online shopping scams were the second-most reported type of scam to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)….
by Annie Walters/Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Nevada Social Security works with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to protect you from scams that use Social Security as bait. Section 1140 of the Social Security Act allows OIG to impose severe penalties against anyone who engages in misleading Social Security-related advertising or imposter…
AT some point in your life, you will have to confront your own mortality as well as the mortality of your loved ones. When you’re 12, you’re in a hurry to become a teenager. When you’re a teenager, you’re in a hurry to become 21. In the meantime, before you turn 21, you’re in college…
FEDERAL and local agencies, community stakeholders, and ethnic media came together to raise public awareness and encourage people to report when they’ve been scammed. Katsumi Iwasaki is originally from Tokyo but has lived in the Bay Area for more than thirty years. After losing his partner of more than two decades to cancer, the soft-spoken…
by Harris Meyer, Kaiser Health News Dr. Jacqui O’Kane took a job with a hospital in southern Georgia in 2020, as the lone doctor in a primary care clinic in a small town that’s a medically underserved area. She soon attracted nearly 3,000 patients. But she said the hospital pressed her to take more new…
Togetherness is an important part of what makes the Filipino community continue to thrive. This can be seen in connections with each other, through family and friends, or even in the community building amongst businesses. On March 23, the Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) Chamber of Commerce launched the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Business Council at…
Jane Doe worked in the office of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). She and another CDCR employee who worked in the same location, Correctional Officer Luis Serna, became sexually involved. Serna recorded their sexual encounter at her home. He then disclosed the video to their co-workers, and eventually, to others outside of…
YOU get your regular shipments of dog food, have your gym membership set to auto-renew each month, and have a free trial subscription to some genealogy site. Helpful, keeps you from having to remember to pay every month, lets you try new stuff for free. But what about when you want to cancel? How is…
By Amrylois Ferido Sri Sai Krish Institute (SSKI), an Orange County-based nursing school, was founded in 2012 by owner VJ Bhaskar, and today, it is a successful school that has many students coming back for both of the exceptional programs they offer. The school not only teaches its students to be good nurses but also…
IF you have questions about health insurance, we offer answers to some of the most common questions we hear from our clients. Which health insurance plan is the best? No health insurance plan is the best for everyone. Each individual and family has a unique situation with regard to income from work, the number of…
Divorced parties are sometimes ordered to pay child support and spousal support in the divorce judgment. The support orders are generally based on the parties’ financial situation and custody arrangements at the time of the settlement or trial. However, what if your income decreases after the divorce or what if your spouse’s income increases after…
Employees lose wages when employers round down or shave work hours Moises Negrete worked at Conagra Foods, Inc.’s food processing facilities located all over California. Moises and other workers sued their employer in a class action, alleging failure to provide them lawful meal and rest periods but automatically deducting time for meal periods, even when…
THE highest profile cases of bankruptcy filings are Walt Disney, Milton Hershey, Orange County, a certain Catholic diocese in the USA that was hit by the child molestation cases, the bankruptcy filings of the Trump companies during the 90s wiping out billions of debt, Toys R Us, Hertz car rentals, among many others. A distinction…
Dear Attorney Tan, I recently married a U.S. Citizen, who is my second husband. He has filed an immigrant visa petition and green card application for me. My husband recently received from USCIS a Notice of Intent to Deny the petition that he filed on my behalf. The Notice indicated that the immigrant visa petition…
Q: MY co-workers and I have been having an issue getting our paychecks on time from our manager. Sometimes we would go more than a month without getting paid, which I know is illegal. When the Regional Manager—our manager’s boss—came to visit, I took the opportunity to let him know about the late paychecks. I…
DIFFERENT clients have different financial and asset situations, which make them start thinking about getting rid of accumulated debt. Nobody starts with borrowing money with the intention of defaulting and not being able to pay back. Certainly, in my over 30 years of practice in bankruptcy law, I have seen potential clients — not many…
Car insurance policies vary in what they cover. The state mandates certain types of coverage that you must have to legally get behind the wheel. However, the mandated minimum coverage may be far too low in some situations, such as being in a hit-and-run, in an accident with an uninsured driver, or if your car…
by Selen Ozturk, Ethnic Media Services Business owners in San Francisco say they remain vulnerable to fraudulent ADA lawsuits which have targeted more than 35,000 businesses statewide. LAST April, the San Francisco and Los Angeles District Attorneys sued San Diego law firm Potter Handy, LLC for filing allegedly fraudulent disability lawsuits with over 300 businessowners…
DID you get a message from a friend on social media about a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant opportunity? Or from someone saying they were an HHS employee? Well…they weren’t who they said they were. They were scammers. This new twist on the age-old government grant scam often goes like this: someone reaches out…
Housing for All effort would streamline the site permit process to significantly reduce permitting times for new developments and major renovations SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor London Breed, City Administrator Carmen Chu, the Department of Building Inspection, and the Planning Department on Tuesday, March 14 announced an effort to improve San Francisco’s Site Permit approval process…
The beachside city has reportedly refused to build more affordable housing per state housing requirements CALIFORNIA Attorney General Rob Bonta announced he was suing the City of Huntington Beach for violating state laws that require it to approve more affordable housing and 13,000 new homes over the next eight years. Along with Governor Gavin Newsom…
BERLIN, Germany – Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco met with major tourism stakeholders in central Europe to explore market opportunities in a bid to increase visitor arrivals from the region. Some twenty tourism movers and players from Central Europe offered their invaluable insights and suggestions on topics ranging from connectivity, training, and…
FILIPINOS in Institutional Real Estate (FIIRE) held a 5-day conference in the Philippines for a delegation coming from the United States in mid-February. FIIRE initially planned an inaugural event in the Philippines to commemorate the beginning of the Manila Chapter in February 2020, eventually pivoting to a virtual launch due to COVID-19. The recent conference…
