It's official, barring any unforeseen objections from the Iowa Commissioner of Insurance or Iowa Attorney General, the CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Company and CUNA Mutual Insurance Society will merge sometime later this year.

Acting IRS Commissioner Kevin Brown recently wrote to the Senate Finance Committee that the line between tax-exempt and commercial entities is blurring, listing credit unions as key offenders, which CUNA did not take to kindly to.

In what is being called a "dramatic" move to fight hunger among school age youngsters, a group of North Carolina credit unions said this week they are helping finance a local charity's six-county project to distribute daily food snacks in dozens of classrooms.