Any amount of quarters between the minimum of 6 and the maximum of 40 would allow for a phased increase in the benefit amount.
Then social security would have one single monthly benefit amount for everyone who draws it, possibly equal to the amount a minimum wage earner makes.
The Social Security Administration now offers a window of one year to pay back Social Security benefits or their benefit amount is set (which of course means reduced ) for their lifetime.
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Each year when the Social Security Administration announces the Cost Of Living Adjustment to benefits for the coming year, with similar ballyhoo they announce the maximum benefit amount available for the coming year.
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Viewing philanthropy as a form of strategic intervention in the life of an institution, he tries to obtain maximum benefit for the amount of money he puts in.
The Dundee-based MSP has called for the city to now be included in the zone and is claiming such a move would benefit improve the amount of investment and visitors to Dundee.
Intuit defines awesome as getting from log on to benefit in the shortest amount of time.
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The bold-face names on our list also benefit from the large amount of time they spend in the public eye.
Laws of diminishing returns mean that even if the science continues to progress, the amount of benefit that can be gained by fine-tuning priority-setting will diminish over time.
The Welsh government says its regulations are designed to avoid a postcode lottery so the amount of benefit people are entitled to is not dependent on where they live.
"High speed connectivity is vital if we are to benefit from the increasing amount of high-quality educational material and multimedia training packages available over the internet, " said Andy Rowland of Ecodyfi.
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"While it would have raised the height of the building slightly, it would not have increased the stack height and it would have brought an overall benefit by reducing the amount of construction traffic, " he said.
New legislation beginning in April 2013 will also reduce the amount of Housing Benefit to working age tenants where they have more bedrooms than the family needs.
Then it plugs your AIME into a formula that figures out your full retirement benefit, called your Primary Insurance Amount (PIA).
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The amount shown on your benefit statement might not be accurate if you have been at the company a long time and your employer spins off your company or unit.
He will be tested when a raft of spending cuts take effect - such as withdrawing child benefit from high earners and capping the total amount people can claim in benefits.
Campaigners like Alison Garnham argue that the public attitudes have been influenced by tabloid caricatures of benefit scroungers when, in fact, the amount paid to out-of-work people had gone down, in real terms, over the past 40 years.
So whatever carbon benefit biofuels do produce should be reduced by the amount released by new farming.
Firms benefit from receiving higher ratings because it reduces the amount of interest they must pay to investors.
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And since they lack defined benefit pensions where they're promised a given amount in retirement, odds are the Stretched-Thins' income and tax rates will be lower in old age.
To make sure that a premium paid today can pay for a benefit promised for tomorrow, an insurer determines the amount it will need for future benefits, marks that amount as a liability, and puts aside funds to pay for it.
Any losses in excess of this amount will result in no current income tax benefit.
Once 20 days have passed, you must pay a hefty co-insurance amount for days 21 through 100 for each benefit period.
Under the 2005 collective bargaining agreement, the referees maintained their defined benefit retirement plans, which granted retired referees a fixed amount of income based upon years of employment.
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The benefit from shorter periods of membership in two schemes may amount to less than what he would have received from spending more years in a single plan.
The net benefit to seniors who retire in 2020 is roughly double the amount received by seniors who retired three decades before.
That could simply mean raising more from private sources and, indeed, an increase in the total dollar amount which goes to charity could be a collateral benefit if less government spending and a simpler tax code lead to renewed economic growth.
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The Maximum Family Benefit ranges between 150% and 180% of the Primary Insurance Amount.
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
Those who lose their jobs could withdraw up to a fixed amount per month, with the government providing some basic benefit if the account is exhausted.
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