Any amount of quarters between the minimum of 6 and the maximum of 40 would allow for a phased increase in the benefit amount.

FORBES: The Social Security Survivor Benefit - Part 1

State officials keep pushing back the target date for when the funding increase will be phased in.

WSJ: School Spending Under Microscope

The gas tax increase, which is being phased in, will total 8.5 cents a gallon by 2012.

FORBES: State Gas Tax Guzzlers

New rules, to be phased in from March next year, will increase the proportion of their assets to be reserved as capital, from 8% to 9%.

ECONOMIST: Indian banks