The cost-lowering potential of direct-payment practices is heartening because the current third-party payment system has failed to stem our burgeoning health cost crisis.

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Others are considering a departure from the current system of third-party payment.

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But he told MPs last week he favours the most ambitious of these - scrapping all current out-of-work benefits in favour of a single payment, which would be tapered to encourage people back into work.

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It was agreed that the lottery would be repaid from future returns from developments at the Olympic Park, but the committee said current projections suggest the first payment will not be until the mid-2020s.

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Thus, even if the homeowner is able to sell their current house, there may be no profit available to satisfy the down-payment on the next home.

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The current final protocol provides the top priority of payment to the families of - the four families who lost loved ones and those who were double amputees or suffered permanent brain damage.

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By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.

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They provide a one-off payment, but if, as seems likely, they are used to finance current spending, issuers will be left with a large hole to fill in the years to come.

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