Leading the debate, Mark Isherwood AM said only 2% of the eligible cohort use the direct payment scheme.
The legislation will increase the number of services where people can claim a direct payment from their local council.
"Billions in direct payment subsidies are paid out even in good times and for crops farmers aren't even growing, " explained Sen.
An SDLP motion asked the minister to retain the direct payment of housing benefit to social landlords following the introduction of universal credit.
Mr. COOK: You can receive a fixed direct payment whether you're actively farming, whether you're not farming at all and just absentee owner investor.
Bron Afon Community Housing, the biggest social housing landlord in Torfaen with 8, 000 properties, has 950 tenants receiving direct payment of their housing benefit.
The IRS requires that the amount I flow through as direct payment to myself as shareholder-owner be representative of what I do within the corporation.
It has promised to take into account the results of the Direct Payment pilots, which show increased levels of rent arrears, before the rollout of direct payments nationwide.
It could result in workers stepping in to give carers time off, help around the home or garden, or a direct payment so carers can decide what help they need.
Around a third of the money going to charities in America and more than half the money they get in Britain is in the form of direct payment from government for services.
Thus, if 100% of the income is the result of my writing, speaking or media appearances, they expect me to take 100%, less allowable business deductions, as direct payment to me and pay all taxes due as a result.
Assembly members have agreed to work with Westminster's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to give people in Northern Ireland the choice of making the direct payment of housing benefit to social and private landlords, on 24 September 2012 .
Still, we could scrap the refundable credits and replace them with a direct cash payment to low-income working families.
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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According to the Center for Studying Health System Change, direct-payment practices increased from 9.2 percent of the market in 2001 to 12.4 percent by 2008.
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The 50-person startup launched in June last year and says it has over 1, 000 direct mobile payment partners and works with major phone carriers worldwide.
Direct-payment could check that cost growth, particularly in the primary care realm, by empowering doctors and patients to negotiate mutually agreeable prices, free of interference from insurers or the government.
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Or as an economist might put it, if there are positive externalities generated by a business (good things for the wider economy for which the company doesn't receive direct financial payment), the chief executive is already being amply rewarded for them by a surplus element in his or her pay.
The structure of the charges can vary depending on payment method (by direct debit, pre-payment meter, or credit transfer such as cheque), on whether it is an internet-only tariff, which part of the country the customer lives in, if the deal involves a fixed price, when the deal was launched, how long it lasts, and so on.
Each payment by direct deposit costs the U.S. about 10 cents.
The IRS told Forbes that taxpayers who have sent in the requested check can contact their financial institution to stop payment on the direct debit.
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The report recommends requesting paperless statements, enrolling in direct deposit, and using electronic bill payment.
And as online bill-payment becomes more common, direct transfers out of bank accounts may also be used more widely for other purchases on the Internet.
That means it also offers WikiLeaks a clever workaround to accept credit card payments, despite the fact that it has said both payment companies continue to block direct donations to the group.
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Announced via the company's developer-focused Hacks blog, navigator.mozPay() is a Javascript API crafted in the vein of Google Wallet, but with a key difference: it'll allow direct carrier billing and support for various payment providers.
Retail bank branches may be the oldest legacy of all, but they have not been replaced by ATMs, direct deposit, standing orders for bill payment, travelers checks, credit cards, phone banking, Internet banking or mobile banking.
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He also makes some vague claims about the treatment of lawyers who buy advertising on the site, but no direct accusations that the site manipulates results based on payment.
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Microsoft are making similar moves with Windows Phone to direct people to register via a Windows ID and set up payment for the Windows Store, and Google has the requirement for a Google account and payment details to fully engage with Android.
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Direct operator billing will also reflect the same price points as current payment methods, ensuring a consistent user experience.
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They use the Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS) - different from the direct payments used in older EU states.
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