Note: Much of the following is extracted from the Senate Finance Committee’s explanation of Reid-McConnell Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reathorization and Job Creation Act, which incorporated the amendments to HR4853 that President Obama negotiated with the Senate and passed back to the House. There was some debate in the house about the Estate [...] Read more »
Obama Signs COBRA Subsidy Extension
Congress sent a $636 billion defense measure to the president last Saturday, December 20, 2009; Obama signed it into law. With the stroke of a pen, the popular COBRA subsidy was enhanced and extended. Don’t you just love how little one has to do with the other? Laid-off workers worried about [...] Read more »