inflation refund checks

Don’t look now, but we’re just days out from capping this stunningly scrambled calendar year. By the end of this week, 2025 will be but a strange, twisted, at times even kinda gorgeous, memory. But the end of the year is also our cue for a time-honored tradition here in the BKMAG newsroom: Looking back…

Don’t skip that trip to the mailbox this week—there’s a solid chance you’ve got a few hundred dollars from the state waiting for you to turn the key. You read that right. It’s “inflation refund” season, thanks to Governor Kathy Hochul, whose administration began mailing out checks to more than 8 million eligible New Yorkers…