Lifestyle and Budget

The three largest credit reporting agencies will change the way they handle records in a major revamp long sought by consumer advocates.

With an eye toward a possible run for the White House, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is signing onto an ambitious plan to cut taxes for investors, parents and businesses in an effort to spur economic growth and create jobs.

The Arizona House gave initial approval Thursday to a bill allowing payday lenders to offer a new product after they were barred from operating in the state under a 2008 voter initiative.

The House voted Wednesday to expand the benefits of popular college savings plans that President Barack Obama failed to scale back.

The Obama administration is proposing tougher restrictions on brokers who manage Americans' retirement accounts, reigniting a confrontation with the financial services industry over rules affecting trillions of dollars in 401k and other savings accounts.

The rich aren't taxed enough and the middle class is taxed too much.

In a new setback for the health care law and the people it's supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that's fouling up the filings of nearly a million Americans.

About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the Obama administration said Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates have risen for a second straight week yet remained near historically low levels.

Florida has eclipsed California to become the state with the highest number of consumers buying health insurance in both the state and federal exchange under the Affordable Care Act.

The White House estimates that more than 11 million people signed up for subsidized private health insurance under President Barack Obama's law this year.

House Republicans are pushing through a series of tax cuts this week affecting millions of businesses and individuals, despite White House veto threats over the cost.

A federal regulator says Corinthian College students will be forgiven a total of $480 million in loans because the for-profit school used "bogus" job prospects to persuade them to pay tuition with expensive private loans.

President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $4 trillion budget that seeks to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations and use the extra income to lift the fortunes of families who have felt squeezed during tough economic times.

Patients face ever-growing exposure to the cost of revolutionary new medications.

President Barack Obama calls his tax and spending plan "middle-class economics," but most middle-income families would see little change in their tax bills.

Troubled by consumer complaints and loopholes in state laws, federal regulators are putting together the first-ever rules on payday loans aimed at helping cash-strapped borrowers avoid falling into a cycle of high-rate debt.

Welfare money or food stamps for marijuana? It's an urban legend that won't go away in Colorado, and state lawmakers this year are poised to pass a law clarifying that public benefit cards can't be used at dispensary ATMs.

The White House says it is dropping a proposal to scale back the tax benefits of college savings plans amid a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats.

Privacy advocates say the Obama administration needs to make more changes to protect consumer privacy on the government's health insurance website.