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Treasury loosen rules on health spending accounts
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Treasury loosen rules on health spending accounts

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This undated handout image provided by the Social Security Administration shows a prepaid MasterCard debit card that Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients who do not have bank accounts have the option of getting with their benefits instead of a paper check. The annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on a government measure of inflation that will be released Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Social Security Administration)
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Social Security benefits to go up by 1.5 percent

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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2013, file photo reporters surround Senate Minority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as he walks to the Senate floor after meeting with Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans in Congress don't usually fight for tax increases, especially ones that are part of President Barack Obama's health care law. But GOP senators balked when Democrats proposed delaying a new temporary fee on everyone covered by health insurance. So employers, insurance companies and other health plan sponsors are in line to pay $63 a person next year for everyone who has coverage. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
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Here’s a tax increase Republican lawmakers support

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., proposed delaying the fee in recent budget talks with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. (AP/ Evan Vucci)
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Roles reversed as GOP fights for insurance tax

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A recent report by the IRS inspector general says the agency has given out somewhere between $110 billion and $132 billion in improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments in the last decade. In that time period, between 21and 30 percent of tax credit payments went to people who didn't qualify for them. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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700 IRS contract workers owe $5.4m in back taxes

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Shutdown causes IRS to delay tax filing season
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Shutdown causes IRS to delay tax filing season

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IRS paid more than $110B in improper tax credits
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IRS paid more than $110B in improper tax credits

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House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., walks to a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013 in Washington. Senate leaders announced last-minute agreement Wednesday to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial, 16-day shutdown. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Budget talks begin, but no guarantee of success

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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients can expect an historically small increase in benefits come January 2014. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)
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Tiny Social Security hike squeezes seniors, vets

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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients can expect an historically small increase in benefits come January 2014. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)
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Social Security raise to be among lowest in years

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