Taxpayers eager to get refunds will have to wait an extra 10 days to file their federal tax returns.

President Barack Obama's choice to head the Internal Revenue Service goes before a Senate committee today.

More troubles for the health care overhaul. Subsidies to help people buy insurance under the law may be vulnerable to fraud, a Treasury Department watchdog said Tuesday in a report suggesting that concerns about the law are far from over.

Social Security benefits for nearly 58 million people will increase by 1.5 percent next year, the government announced Wednesday.

The Obama administration is trying to lower expectations for strong initial enrollments under the president's historic expansion of health coverage for the medically uninsured.

Stressing that improvements are happening daily, the senior Obama official closest to the administration's malfunctioning health care website apologized Tuesday for problems that have kept Americans from successfully signing up for coverage.

Medicare Chief Marilyn Tavenner will be questioned Tuesday by the House Ways and Means Committee not only on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov, but also whether lawmakers can trust Obama administration promises to have things running efficiently by the end of November.

Republicans in Congress don't usually fight for tax increases, especially ones that are part of President Barack Obama's health care law.