Report: Continuing insurance can exceed amout of unemployment benefit ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

WASHINGTON - Newly unemployed Americans will have to spend about 30 percent of their jobless benefits on average to pay for health insurance through their former employer, according to a new report. And if they want coverage for their families, the ...

Fargo police investigating reports of children being approached by ... - DL-Online

FARGO – Fargo police are investigating a number of incidents in recent weeks in which someone approached children near two schools and spoke to them in a suspicious or inappropriate manner. A white male driving a green car approached an 8-year-old ...

Study: COBRA health insurance is little help to unemployed - Tulsa World

If you were just laid off from your job in Oklahoma, you would spend nearly 83 percent of your monthly unemployment pay to continue your employer-based health insurance coverage under COBRA, a national report says. Families USA, a national consumer ...

Health Insurance CEOs Get Big Raises - Boston Channel

BOSTON -- Team 5 Investigates Janet Wu has learned that CEOs of the state's three biggest health insurance non-profit companies have all received double-digit raises in recent years, while patients face eight to twelve percent annual premium ...

Unemployment payments barely cover COBRA health insurance costs - Oregonian

Many Americans who have lost jobs in this recession also lose health insurance for their families, because unemployment payments are often too low to pay for continued health insurance coverage, according to a new report by Families USA. The report ...