Lower earners who can foresee a windfall will often benefit from planning, notes Mr. Lewis.

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But arts bodies could benefit from a funding windfall as a knock on effect of the battle between Camelot and Richard Branson's The People's Lottery to win the franchise.

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Moreover, while it is completely appropriate and necessary to punish certain mortgage servicers for abuses, this does not justify turning their deficiencies into a selective windfall for homeowners who have stopped paying their mortgage while withholding the same benefit from the millions of underwater homeowners who have not.

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