The trust allows a disabled beneficiary to receive gifts from relatives, lawsuit settlements, or an inheritance without losing eligibility.
Obama is not the only leader of the free world to receive gifts.
The Roman Catholic charity Caritas, for example, uses the church network to distribute medical donations, and many people receive gifts of vitamins and medicines from relatives living abroad.
Although these companies still pass most of their revenue to the government, they can keep a commission of 4%-5%, and staff appear to receive generous gifts from the growing number of Chinese companies competing for their business, she said.
Gartner also found that men tend to buy a media tablet for themselves, while women tend to receive them as gifts.
Consequently, many prominent officers, corporate affiliates and individual shareholders--many of whom you are likely to recognize--won't receive the public gifts they had hoped.
"You receive so many baby gifts for newborns, " said Elizabeth Street's Ms. Della Valle.
But maybe that should make the gifts we give and the gifts we receive all the more precious, and the small flights of fancy and anticipation they offer us all the more appreciated for being rare.
The Betars are scheduled to receive a plaque and other gifts from the group at their granddaughter's home in Fairfield on Saturday.
"Happy birthday to me, " I said to the ripening chestnut tree in the front yard, not yet knowing that the gifts I would receive that day would make me agree to return, reluctantly and to protect sacred secrets, to the grief-breathing place of childhood, to the Seaboro River.
Another piece in the People's Daily sets out legal advice for the festival, ranging from the legal limit of gifts that one can receive without constituting a bribe to whether your deposit for a New Year's Eve dinner could be refunded if you cannot go.
Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) aims its bank- card pitch at employers who buy them in bulk as staff gifts. (BofA declined to comment on whether employers receive a discount rate for buying scads of cards at a time.) There's no dormancy fee with BofA's product, but after nine months the cards become worthless, whatever the remaining balance is.
Although religious organizations receive an estimated 35% of all charitable dollars, only 1% of gifts reported on the Million Dollar List are directed toward religious organizations.
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We all like to think about what we might receive at the holidays, and most of us are fortunate enough to take gifts themselves for granted.
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