In the past, officials would get a spreadsheet showing how much money each department was spending on personnel or technology, for example. (erstrategies.org)
The more students who successfully receive loan forgiveness, the more money the department must give up on their federal loans. (thefiscaltimes.com)
This improvement in the budgetary balance is the result of two factors: first, the projected rebound in economic activity in the latter half of 2013 and continuing in 2014; and second, by an increase in the forecast of the «lapse» (the amount of money departments / agencies are not expected to spend related to their approved budgets) by a about $ 2 billion a year. (3dpolicy.ca)