Visa and several large banks are testing mobile-payment programs that allow consumers to make contact-less payments with an existing smartphone equipped with a special chip card and antenna.
Without running a bigger surplus, Argentina will find it hard to meet even the payments on its non-defaulted local debt, much less renew payments on the rest.
The committee generally also studies another monthly indicator of economy-wide activity, personal income less transfer payments, in real terms, adjusted for price changes.
Net losses (operating income less debt payments and non-cash charges such as depreciation) for the parent company were likely much greater than operating losses some years as the team was investing heavily in its regional sports channel, YES Network.
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For the top fifth, by contrast, such transfer payments represented less than 2% of household income.
Six of Mail-Well's 33 plants weren't even covering their operating costs, much less leaving anything for interest payments or capital expenditures.
If it isn't, the target may pay off the complainer anyway, extortion payments being sometimes less costly than damage to the brand.
Whatever the flaws of the food stamp program, at least it does not require grocers to accept 40 percent less for food-stamp payments than they would from other customers.
The fall in inflation, which is driving down future nominal returns and so reducing the prospective value of the endowment policies, also means that homebuyers are paying less in mortgage-interest payments.
BABs subsidy payments are only offset if the issuer is seriously delinquent in paying money owed to the federal government, and less than two percent of payments have been offset to pay delinquent taxes so far.
Instead you can receive distributions from your IRA that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) based on your life expectancy or the joint life expectancies of you and your beneficiary without having to pay the 10 percent penalty.
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Near the end of the second week, Horace Mann offered a financial settlement, with payments ranging from less than ten thousand dollars to more than a hundred thousand, depending on how badly the students had been abused and on whether they had alerted school authorities while they were still teen-agers.
Under such a system, the number of persons receiving retirement payments would be substantially less.
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Without the use of Zerocoin or less trustworthy laundry services, all payments made with Bitcoin are in some sense entirely exposed.
Those who earn less during their life receive lower payments and those who earn more during their life receive higher payments.
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Russia still had a current-account surplus last year, but if oil prices continue their recent decline, the balance of payments will soon look less healthy and the need for foreign investment may become more urgent.
But even banks that claim to comply with it now, such as Britain's NatWest and Germany's Deutsche Bank, say they cannot guarantee a transfer time of less than six days for most payments by wire.
The significantly higher tax base that would result under lower capital income taxes means that such a reform would be deficit-neutral, provided that either transfer payments were reduced by less than 2% of GDP or a national consumption tax of less than 3% were adopted.
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Add these to the sums, and there is even less money available for normal Social Security payments.
The assumption is that making the disclosures public will result in fewer payments, or at least less influence for the speakers.
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People who are less mobile will be entitled to higher payments.
In particular, retailers are less convinced of the benefits of NFC payments over existing card technologies and are unwilling to invest in contactless infrastructure so soon after the transition to EMV cards, said Juniper.
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How is it that we have all these policy obligations to help our less fortunate fellow citizens, through transfer payments and the like, but such limited obligations to people in other countries, many of whom are far poorer?
Instead, home owners would have been forced to make higher mortgage payments and would have had even less money to spend on consumption.
In a matter of months, 10% of the bank's 56, 000 seriously delinquent borrowers had their payments reduced to 38% or less of income.
This is a lot, but not as much as they put away in savings, and less then they spend on daycare and car payments.
Falling values mean that even if you've been dutifully making mortgage payments, you end up owning less and less of the roof over your head.
Ironically, Europe's much-criticised Common Agricultural Policy has been moving away from price and production-based subsidies towards direct payments to farmers that have far less impact on trade.
Even though private companies spend less, on average, than individuals for rent payments, inevitably there are some businesses that still struggle with the monthly expenditure and look for ways to stretch payments out over time.
This way total monthly payments on all the household debt will be less.
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