Commercial providers only get paid a fixed sum of money when they meet performance-based milestones.
In the longer term, the government hopes to persuade Congress to tax cigarettes and alcohol on their value, rather than a fixed sum per unit sold.
DC, now receives a block grant for welfare (a fixed sum based on the amount it received at the time of greatest need) from the federal government.
The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its bills for the winter.
Currently run by Severn River Crossing Plc, the bridge will return to public ownership when the firm has collected a fixed sum of money from tolls, expected to be around 2017.
The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its electric bills for the winter.
Under Medicare Advantage, seniors effectively get a fixed sum to buy coverage from HMOs or managed care companies instead of having Uncle Sam pay doctors and hospitals on an a la carte basis.
However, they should not be deterred from university since they would only have to make repayments of a fixed sum, unlike the graduate tax, and the system would offer protection to low earners.
These are policies which promise to pay out a supposedly fixed sum to the policy holder's inheritors when the customer eventually dies, with the payment coming from the investment proceeds of the person's monthly premiums.
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Today borrowers are more likely to be in their early 60s (62 is the minimum age), and they are overwhelmingly (70%) choosing a fixed rate lump sum payment option.
One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.
There's yet another reason grandparents looking to stash a large sum in 529 plans may favor fixed income: You can only fund a 529 plan with cash.
Today, 70 percent of HECM loans are fixed rate, where proceeds are disbursed only through a single lump sum.
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While most HECM reverse-mortgage options carry adjustable rates and offer a line of credit or annuity-like payouts over time, the sole fixed-rate HECM choice is available only with a lump-sum payout.
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