Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig Key Takeaways You can keep your health plan with COBRA if you lose your job, reduce work hours, or have certain life changes.COBRA only applies if your employer has at ...

Carolyn McClanahan, CFP, MD, is the founder and president of Life Planning Partners, Inc. She is a contributor to CNBC, Investopedia, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and a ...

COBRA stands for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which is a health insurance program that allows employees to continue to receive healthcare benefits even after losing their job or ...

The latest coronavirus relief law, which President Biden signed Thursday, gives many workers who have been laid off over the past year the option to resume employer-based health insurance coverage ...

Free health insurance for Americans without job-based coverage through the COBRA health benefits program that was allocated in a government stimulus bill expires on Thursday. The $1.9 trillion ...

After Congress passed the latest stimulus package, Shawna Stiles of North Richland Hills learned the government would pick up the cost of health insurance premiums for six months. It was welcome news ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM)-- Millions of laid off Americans now can keep their workplace health insurance for free. While much of the talk around the American Rescue Plan Act, passed by Congress in ...

Losing a job doesn't just mean saying goodbye to a paycheck. It often means losing health insurance. Though not all employers provide subsidized health insurance to their staff, many do, so getting ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Americans will also now be allowed to deduct larger medical expenses on their taxes, while adding more money, tax-free, to their flexible health spending plan. The ...

Good morning. I’m Madalyn Amato, filling in for Rachel Schnalzer to bring you the L.A. Times Business section’s weekly newsletter. Some benefits from the federal stimulus package passed last month are ...

A man who competes with COBRA group health continuation coverage says the federal COVID-19 stimulus package probably will not do all that much to improve COBRA. Jeff Smedsrud, the CEO of Pivot Health, ...