The length of the transfer penalty period incurred is calculated by dividing the value of your asset transfer by the average monthly cost of nursing care in your state.

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Banks want not only the fees--which average 4.4% of the transfer--but also a chance to persuade the customer to open an account or take out a loan.

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The buyer pays the real estate transfer tax, normally 2%, plus closing costs that average 5% to 7%.

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File sizes are hefty, at an average of 12MB to 96MB, and require quick transfer between users, Russell says.

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About 64 percent of students who are the first in their families to go to college transfer or graduate within three years, compared to the national average of 40 percent.

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The average charge was euro24 and the highest, for a transfer from Greece to Denmark, was nearly euro61.

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On July 5th Kyodo, a news agency, reported that 21 Chinese were among 27 foreign trainees who died last year on a government-sponsored skills-transfer scheme for developing countries that over the past four years has brought in an average of 94, 000 workers a year, mostly from China.

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Its critics say it promotes a vast transfer of wealth from the young to the old, which is unfair since older people are, on average, much richer.

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