Disaster recovery

Unemployment benefits, leave of absences and calculating wages are among the issues likely to affect companies in the wake of the storm.

Companies that were forced to close need to determine whether they have to pay employees who stayed home as well as handle other employment issues that many may not have thought about before.

Closing offices, activating emergency plans and backing up data, brokerages plan to weather the storm.

Closing offices, activating emergency plans and backing up data, brokerages plan to weather the storm.

Houston broker Cary Goss shares lessons learned from an historic storm, including information he wishes he’d sent clients ahead of time.

The Internal Revenue Service granted relief to those hit by the storm by making it easier for retirement plans to give loans and hardship distributions.

The agency will allow some Texas residents to file certain individual and business tax returns and make some tax payments as late as Jan. 31.