<div id="subtitle">Extending COBRA subsidy would help laid-off workers with insurance</div><div><p> With the subsidy, the average cost of health benefits for a Nevada family drops to $363 a month.</p><p> Federal law allows people who have been laid off to continue with their ...

<div id="subtitle">Subsidy to help pay for insurance premium up for renewal in Congress</div><div><p> WASHINGTON Buried amid the promises of new bridges, roads and recessionary aid in the Recovery Act passed this year by Congress was one tangible benefit for the unemployed: a subsidy to help pay health ...

<div id="subtitle">Advocacy group claims health care reform would provide solution</div><div><p>Many of the millions of unemployed workers and dependents who received federal subsidies to help pay for health care coverage have lost those subsidies and are joining the ranks of the uninsured.</p><p ...

<div id="subtitle">Health benefit subsidies for jobless expiring; congressional action needed to extend it</div><div><p>An auto parts employee laid off from his job last year has been able to hang onto his health insurance because the federal government has picked up most of the tab. That subsidy ends ...