Households that are in receipt of benefits or tax credits and have more than three children living in them can claim a water bill discount through the Water Industry Charges (Vulnerable Groups) Scheme.

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And the cost to the supplier of immediate cash payment by the bank, in respect of the implicit interest rate or discount on the bill, ought to be tiny - because the bank is in effect lending to the safe big company, which ultimately honours the bill, not to the riskier supplier.

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And when she appeared in a full-page Wall Street Journal ad cutting a hundred-dollar bill in half as a symbol of her discount philosophy, her long-time clearing house dropped her, and she was briefly threatened with Securities and Exchange Commission expulsion.

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Even if not the Cupertino based company will likely hedge a significant amount of stock and that a bulk discount will ensure they can always have a cheaper bill of materials than any competitor using the alloy.

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There will be an extenders bill this year, but the uncertainty means that taxpayers might rationally discount the actual tax breaks and that raises the odds that they will simply provide windfalls rather than affecting behavior.

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The hospital chain said that since the provider will be responsible for collecting a much smaller portion of the bill from the patient directly (and risk not getting paid), the net effect of the 10 percent discount from traditional commercial rates may be fully mitigated.

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