Topic: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Ensuring Parity

The most significant points about complying with the Mental Health Parity Act and an update on the COBRA benefits -- as modified by the economic-stimulus act -- are summarized this month. Generally speaking, the MHPAEA requires that financial requirements (such as co-payments ...

COBRA

COBRA is a 1986 federal law that allows people who would otherwise lose their health care insurance through an employer to retain their former health insurance for up to 18 months. FAQs About COBRA Continuation Health Coverage a Originally billed as a ...
Most employers are aware of the provisions of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) that allows former employees to continue their health benefits after they leave employment, after all the law has been around since 1986. Any individual employee at has ...
If you have been in the habit of depending on credit, your debts will eventually mount to unmanageable levels. This is one of the worst problems you can get in that also ranks among the leading causes of stress and physical health ...

Jobless benefit nearing its end

Subsidy to help pay for insurance premium up for renewal in Congress WASHINGTON Buried amid the promises of new bridges, roads and recessionary aid in the Recovery Act passed this year by Congress was one tangible benefit for the unemployed: a subsidy ...
There is a tremendous effort by the President and the Democratic Party to swiftly replace our current system of health care insurance with a government sponsored insurance program designed to bring health insurance coverage to all Americans. Of course, this sounds like ...

Traps For The Unemployed

Hailed by President Barack Obama and others as a lifeline for the recently unemployed, new legislation providing a 65% federal subsidy for health insurance contains numerous pitfalls and still-to-be-resolved issues that could trip up the unwary, experts caution.. Many of the difficulties ...
With the nation's unemployment rate rising to its highest levels in more than 25 years, many families are at risk of losing their employer-sponsored health coverage. A new brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the COBRA provisions of the stimulus legislation ...