COBRA

Boost Your Score

Kim Lankford answers your questions on improving your credit rating, prolonging health-care coverage, retrieving college savings, and claiming the prescription-drug rebate.

Property-Tax Deduction and COBRA Subsidy Updates

Legislators didn't extend the COBRA subsidy. But there's still a chance that the property-tax deduction for non-itemizers will be revived.

Getting Health Insurance on Your Own

You have some special options if your COBRA coverage is ending and you have preexisting conditions that make it difficult for you to get health insurance.

Who Pays If a Tree Falls

Kim Lankford fields your questions about homeowners coverage, COBRA eligibility, nondeductible IRA contributions, and first-time home buyer tax credits.

The Quest for Health Insurance

Finding coverage when you're too young for Medicare can seem like an impossible dream.

How to Cope Without COBRA

The new health reform law did not extend COBRA eligibility or the subsidy that helped laid-off workers pay for COBRA health insurance. Here's how they can find an affordable policy.

More Tax Breaks for Business
Coming Soon

One year after passage of an economic stimulus bill, Congress is planning to give the economy another boost with more tax cuts.

Ask Kim: How to Compare Funds, ETFs

Kimberly Lankford explains how to compare the performance of similar mutual funds and ETFs, whether you can get your Medicare Part B premiums reduced, and more.