Those who lose their jobs could withdraw up to a fixed amount per month, with the government providing some basic benefit if the account is exhausted.
One spouse could be given special powers, such as a power to withdraw a fixed amount of trust property each year or a power to appoint trust property (in equal or unequal shares) among your descendants.
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The idea is that if you band with a group of people you know and trust and each agrees to contribute a fixed amount every week for a number of weeks equal to the size of the group, every person can have their turn to take the collective pool.
The PBGC pension amounts are locked-in to a fixed dollar amount.
The borrowing limit thus acts like the trust fund balance in Medicare Part A or Social Security, except that it allows the program to go a fixed amount into the red.
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Putting too many people in that category would have shortchanged others given a fixed amount to allocate.
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Prior to this increase, the highest income earners paid a fixed dollar amount that roughly corresponded to a prepaid premium for Medicare coverage.
It also makes it easier to budget yourself since you can simply give yourself a fixed amount of cash and not allow yourself to go back to the ATM when it runs out.
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In the current model, students have a fixed amount of time to learn new concepts.
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Similar to the calculation for individuals, the AGI for the taxable year is first reduced by a fixed threshold amount, and then compared to UNII.
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Medicare assigns each clinical procedure a different RVU and then multiplies this figure by a fixed amount of money to arrive at how much it will pay a doctor for a given task.
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The way to meet our demographic challenge is to keep people in the labor force longer, Mr. Shultz says, and not fall for European notions that there is some fixed amount of work to be divided up.
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If state and local officials had a fixed amount of dollars to spend, along with maximum flexibility in how to spend these dollars so long as they were tied to the purpose of disaster recovery or indigent medical assistance, this would greatly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both Medicaid and national disaster recovery efforts.
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The same logic applies to Medicaid except that in this case defined contributions also means giving states a fixed dollar amount so that they no longer have an unrelenting incentive to expand their programs.
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The concern, generally, is that billions of speculative dollars are chasing a fixed amount of oil, working to increase commodity prices.
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Giving each state a fixed dollar amount would create strong incentives to carefully weigh spending priorities both across various state programs and within Medicaid, along with far stronger incentives to control costs (since states will pocket every dollar of savings).
The banks got a fixed dollar amount that will be spread proportionately to everyone in population with no assessment of harm.
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We instead provide them with a fixed amount of dollars that they can use to purchase food in the same locations as everyone else.
No market risk and the implicit (or even explicit) state guarantee: Pay a fixed amount now, and when Junior goes to a state college, his tuition is covered.
The turning point arrived in 1999 when the new telecom policy changed the licensing fees from a fixed amount that wireless companies had been struggling to pay to a revenue-sharing model.
Fixed at uneconomic rates, these price controls amount to a default on Argentina's contractual obligations to the utility companies, many of them foreign-owned.
This means that virtual items acquired within Entropia Universe have a real cash value, and a participant may, at any time, initiate a withdrawal of their accumulated PEDs back into real world currencies according to the fixed exchange rate, minus transaction fees, the minimum amount for a withdrawal is 1000 PED.
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In any economy, the fallacy says, there is only a fixed amount of work (a lump of labour) to do.
Although they must absorb 100 percent of all the costs incurred above the fixed amount the government provides, if they should manage to deliver their vehicle concepts for less than the amount allotted, they only get to keep 20 percent of savings.
One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.
Every portfolio is rebalanced back to its fixed target of stocks and bonds when the percentage is off by a meaningful amount.
In the conventional Stirling engine, a fixed amount of helium is compressed in a cool chamber and then transferred to a chamber heated by an external burner.
One drawback of a fixed-rate reverse mortgage is that you have to draw down the entire loan amount up front and pay interest on the entire amount across the life of the loan.
Metacloud is charging customers a fixed amount per month based on the number of CPUs the customer has hooked up to their service.
Customers signing up to You Fix will get a set allowance of minutes, texts and a Flexible Booster for a fixed monthly amount, on a short 12 month plan.
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