Sentences with phrase «federal subsidy payments»

Connecticut joined Massachusetts, California and Kentucky in filing a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration's move to stop $ 7 billion in federal subsidy payments to health insurers under the Affordable Care Act.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

The new Build America Bond Program allows state and local governments to issue taxable bonds in 2009 and 2010 for government capital projects and receive a direct federal subsidy payment from the US Treasury for a portion of their borrowing costs.

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Further, according to analyst projections, eliminating CSR payments would also result in a net increase in federal costs of $ 2.3 billion2 for fiscal year 2018 as the result of the increased benchmark premium also increasing the premium subsidies.

Transfer payments, regional subsidies and even the announcements for universities, regional slush funds or rural broadband financing announced over the last few months, they all share the intended two - prong effect: vote - buying, and spreading the illusion that the federal government can fix a local problem, be it in classrooms or in lousy internet connections.

One of the charges read, «That you, Adegbite Adetoye and Ponnle Abiodun whilst being directors of Origin Oil and Gas Limited on or about the 8th day of October 2010 to December, 2011 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and with intent to defraud, conspired to obtain the sum of N735, 132, 076.18 From the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.»

Recalling that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had, in December, informed Nigerians that the NNPC has been paying subsidy on fuel, Ologbondiyan said the Federal Government has refused to tell Nigerians who the beneficiaries are, the amount involved and who authorised the payment, because of the inherent corruption in the deal.

While the USDA payment was chicken - scratch in the world of federal subsidies, grants and loan guarantees, it shows how risky to the taxpayers such federal programs are.

Under the ACA, people who earn between 100 % and 400 % of the federal poverty level and purchase a plan through the exchange qualify for premium subsidies that offset their monthly insurance payments.

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.I MORE

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.I

Title IV - E Claims and Adoption Assistance Payments Hansen (2006) Discusses Federal legislation that was passed to provide subsidies to adoptive families to encourage the adoption of children with special needs, including Adoption Opportunities grants and the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, also known as Title IV - E of the Social Security Act.

Child support enforcement cases made on behalf of foster children who were subsequently adopted with adoption assistance payments (also known as adoption subsidy) have been addressed (at least in part) in a few federal laws and policies.

To receive emergency financial or start - up assistance from RCP, the relative caregiver family must not be in receipt of any type of kinship payment or subsidy (e.g., Foster Care Board Payment, Families First Kinship Care Payment, or Subsidized Guardianship), and the household income can not exceed twice the current federal poverty guipayment or subsidy (e.g., Foster Care Board Payment, Families First Kinship Care Payment, or Subsidized Guardianship), and the household income can not exceed twice the current federal poverty guiPayment, Families First Kinship Care Payment, or Subsidized Guardianship), and the household income can not exceed twice the current federal poverty guiPayment, or Subsidized Guardianship), and the household income can not exceed twice the current federal poverty guideline.

It provides a structure for states to make foster care maintenance payments and adoption assistance payments and receive federal subsidies.

The Section 8 provision, part of the VA / HUD appropriations bill (see below), cuts costs by lowering the amount of rent subsidies paid by the government; it protects tenants and owners by allowing owners to restructure their mortgages to lower their monthly payments; and it allows HUD to terminate contracts with owners who've egregiously violated federal requirements.