Headline News Archive

2013

January

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• Financial reform battle continues over Dodd-Frank law. The fate of financial reform may be decided in the coming year as congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle attempt to modify the

2012

December

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• Simple financial resolutions for 2013. Make resolutions if you must: But that doesn't usually last. Resolutions get broken because they are too lofty and too ill-defined. It is better

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• Individual mandate in healthcare was year's top consumer story. This was the year of the healthcare mandate. No other consumer story of 2012 comes close. In a split decision, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts

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• Perfect 10? Ask her for her credit score. As she nibbled on strawberry shortcake, Jessica LaShawn, a flight attendant from Chicago, tried not to get ahead of herself and imagine this first date

• New taxes for Obama's health overhaul. New taxes are coming Jan. 1 to help finance President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay

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• Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers. As the health-care industry rushed onto the Internet in search of efficiencies and improved care in recent years, it has exposed a wide array of

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• Florida debt-relief firm penalized by CFPB. A Florida debt-relief company will pay as much as $100,000 in refunds to customers under the first joint enforcement action between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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• Walking the tightrope on mental health coverage. Insurance covers more mental health care than many people may realize, and more people will soon have the kind of health insurance that does so.

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• How your health care will change in 2013. New limit on healthcare spending accounts in 2013 is $2500.

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• Health insurance: US paying more for less. Health insurance premiums have shot up more than 60 percent in the last eight years, and if they keep up at this pace the average family

• Deadline approaches as SBA OKs millions in Sandy distaster loans. In the month after Hurricane Sandy, the Small Business Adminsitration approved $156.56 million in low-interest disaster loans to 2,507 homeowners, renters and businesses in New York, New

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• Collecting on travel insurance not smooth sailing. When it comes to travel, especially involving something as pricey as a cruise, it's wise to take precautions. You never know when you may

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• Pay the penalty, or insure your staff?. Rose Wang looks at her staff of 70 employees and wonders if she’ll have to lay off some of them to comply with the

November

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• So you’re a good driver? let’s go to the monitor. Last week, under my car’s dashboard, I installed a small wireless gadget that would monitor my driving. I wanted to see how it felt

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• Millions will qualify for new options under the health care law. Most have no idea.. After surviving a Supreme Court decision and a presidential election, the Obama administration’s health-care law faces another challenge: a public largely unaware of major

• Officials propose altered rules for health insurers. The Obama administration proposed new rules Tuesday that would loosen some of the 2010 health-care law’s mandates on insurers while tightening others. Certain health plans,

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• Health law has states feeling tense over deadline. States are supposed to tell the Obama administration by Friday whether they want to create their own health insurance exchange — a deadline that many had

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• New long-term care policies offer more options. As Americans are living longer they are facing the staggering cost of nursing homes and assisted-living care, often without a financial safety net. Long-term-care insurance

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• Low-interest government loans to help with storm damage. Even if you don’t own a business, you may be eligible for a disaster loan from the federal Small Business Administration to help

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• Filing insurance claims after Sandy: What to expect. Damaging winds. Fire. Floods. It's bad enough that millions of homeowners had to endure the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, but now many have to deal

• Beware of scam attempts by ‘storm chasers’. In the aftermath of fires, blizzards, tornadoes, earthquakes or hurricanes, the crooks come out to play. As the East Coast begins to recover from Hurricane

October

30

• Home insurance: What to do now and when storm ends. The best thing you could have done before Hurricane Sandy struck was make an inventory of your house and your possessions. There's even an app

• Hurricane may test limits of homeowners’ insurance. With rain flooding the Washington area, many homeowners may end up looking to their insurance to cover water damage to their homes or belongings. But

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• Ohio man wth near-perfect credit score. Tom Pavelka has a nice 3,000-square-foot home in Westlake, a good government job, two British sports cars and an adoring wife of 25 years. But he

• Credit report errors often a nightmare to fix. A federal law is supposed to guarantee that credit report errors get fixed. So why do some people wind up spending months or even years