NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- If you've recently lost your job, or are soon to be unemployed, you're going to want to know what your health insurance options are. One option you may qualify for is Cobra, ...

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 ...

If you've recently lost your job, or are soon to be unemployed, you're going to want to know what your health insurance options are. One option you may qualify for is Cobra, the federal law that ...

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 ...

During the pandemic, the Joe Biden administration extended multiple health insurance deadlines. And indeed, COBRA insurances are eligible for an extension. According to the Federal Employee Income ...

People who have been laid off or furloughed from their jobs now have significantly more time to decide whether to hang on to their employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a recent federal ...

If you lost your job, whether laid off or fired — except for gross misconduct — you are probably eligible for the government to pick up the tab for your COBRA insurance for the next six months.

Editor's note: There’s good news for people who have been laid off recently. After several extensions, the COBRA subsidy was scheduled to expire for newly laid-off people on March 31, 2010. But ...