Sentences with phrase «payment scheme for»

On family legal aid funding we listened to practitioners, and announced a new payment scheme for solicitors and barristers undertaking advocacy in family legal aid cases which revised some of our original proposals.

Last year, it introduced a monthly payment scheme for part - time postgraduate courses, which was «extremely well received», according to ULaw's vice president, Sarah Hutchinson.

Also, what would be the payment scheme for SuBLime?

With the continued growth of Latin American market on the Dating Factory platform we have introduced a new payment scheme for members specifically adjusted to the Latin American market.

This paper briefly summarizes how the FORMA tool and the fCPR rating system could provide provide a performance scorecard and an interim performance - based payments scheme for safeguarding forests.

Aside from the National Apology and the establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, many of the other recommendations for reparation remain largely outstanding, including the establishment of compensation payment schemes for the Stolen Generations and their families.

Not exact matches

Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.

But attorneys at Keller Rohrback, one of the firms whose case was rolled into Berman's, explained the reason for adding the PBMs in a May letter to the court: «The PBM defendants play a central role in the scheme — selling formulary access in exchange for «rebates» or other payments» from the manufacturers.

The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.

These let sole traders and small businesses accept card payments, often for the first time ever since previous card acceptance schemes would have been too cost - prohibitive.

Digital libraries, for example, often don't include older material and journals and paradoxically reduce access to material due to payment schemes.

As part of the report's key findings for payments, the WEF concluded that the greatest potential for «decentralized and non-traditional payment schemes» such as distributed ledgers «may be to radically...

2 A «collective investment scheme» (as defined in Schedule 1 to the SFO) generally has four elements: it must involve an arrangement in respect of property; participants do not have day - to - day control over the management of the property; the property is managed as a whole by or on behalf of the person operating the arrangements, and / or the contributions of the participants and the profits or income from which payments are made to them are pooled; and the purpose or effect of the arrangement is for participants to participate in or receive profits, income or other returns from the acquisition or management of the property.

(e) post on the Sites or through the Applications any franchise, pyramid scheme, «club membership,» distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an up - front or periodic payment, pays commissions only (except for postings that make clear that the available job pays commission only and clearly describes the product or service that the job seeker would be selling, in which case these types of postings are permissible), or requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents;

The PC scheme will cease to exist once all payments for the current financial year, due by 31 July 2014, are collected.

Under the terms of the Scottish scheme, the highest payment rate of # 4,000 is available to farmers on Bute, Arran, Mull, and the Kintyre peninsula to protect the supply base for Campbeltown creamery.

Revenue benefits include 20 - year index - linked, government - backed incentive payments, with about # 2m ($ 2.84 m) per annum in support through the government's RHI scheme and a further # 1m ($ 1.42 m) through the sale of gas to the wholesale market and from the Feed in Tariff scheme for the power generated in the combined heat and power (CHP) engine.

Kruger, Boyland and the others were charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office last month in a bribery scheme that involved allegedly accepting illicit payments in exchange for favors.

In this second scheme, the environmental company began making a series of monthly payments to Adam Skelos as his father helped the business position itself to get contracts for rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy.

He said, «It is germane at this stage to congratulate the Federal Government which in the last one week commenced the payment of monthly stipends to its successful applicants for the N - Power schemes for the unemployed youths in our country and the payment of monthly stipends of N5, 000 to vulnerable but socially responsible poor in our society.

«As I researched the idea of promoting savings in our sector, the idea of credit union came into mind and I said that's it because it dawned on me that majority of the people don't have savings accounts, insurance cover or even pension schemes and since I became the Chairman of GHAMRO I really felt the pinch because every now and then I get calls from members asking for advance payment of their royalty to either pay school fees, settle medical bills or to even solve other financial problems then I've realized that this vacuum has to be filled because GHAMRO doesn't have a policy to pay this type of monies».

Similar to the Glenwood scheme, DEAN SKELOS solicited payments to ADAM SKELOS from PRI during the same conversations when PRI was seeking DEAN SKELOS's support for the extension of this legislation that was critical to PRI's business.

«However with the pilot showing such a significant level of mis - selling we are concerned that the FSA has not mandated that all payments are suspended when a firm enters into the scheme — we would like the banks to do this for their customers.

Halloran negotiated for $ 110,000 in bribes to be paid out to three city GOP leaders through the mayoral - race - fixing scheme, and he sought another $ 75,000 in payments for himself, the feds say.

At Mr. Silver's trial, the government presented evidence that prosecutors said showed he had orchestrated two schemes through which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in illegal payments for taking official actions that benefited a prominent cancer researcher, Dr. Robert N. Taub, at Columbia University, and two New York real estate development firms.

Education secretary Michael Gove told the Commons that payments being made to poorer students will actually increase under the scheme, which would have access to # 180 million funds - compared to # 500 million for the original.

The defense team repeatedly attacked Howe's credibility during cross-examination, showcasing how the lobbyist embezzled money, lost a near million dollar home for failure to make mortgage payments and has led schemes to defraud friends, co-workers, employees and family members over the past two decades.

More information is available at www.fsb.org.uk Visit the Prompt Payment Code website for more information on the scheme.

The majority of the payments to forces have been capped at # 100,000, with the exception of Lancashire and Cumbria police authorities, which were refunded the full # 725,000 they spent on being the pilot scheme for the mergers.

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

An eight - count indictment accuses the two men of «a corrupt scheme to monetize Dean Skelos's official position,» in which the senator used his power to obtain for his son jobs and payments from companies with business before the state.

Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, held the powerful post for two decades and was found guilty of fraud, extortion and other charges stemming from schemes through which he received nearly $ 4 million, masking such payments as legitimate outside income and referrals he earned for work as a lawyer.

Most significantly, nearly a third (31 %) of respondents said that reducing NICs payments for the first six months of employment would encourage them to take on more staff, and 11 per cent said extending the NICs holiday scheme would be an incentive.

Glenwood Management was also unaware for most of the scheme that Silver was receiving payments from the law firm they retained to represent them on tax appeals based on Silver's recommendation.

The «One World Conservatism» green paper also proposes «payment by results» funding for agencies and a controversial scheme concerning aid vouchers, which would give impoverished communities choice over the help they receive.

A former chief executive of the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan has been charged with receiving about $ 1.4 million in illegal payments in an extortion and kickback scheme carried out between 1996 and 2007.

Prosecutors argued that the recommendations, which followed federal guidelines, were appropriate considering the volume of wrongdoing, pointing to the three separate schemes for which the pair was convicted, which resulted in $ 334,000 worth of» extortion payments, bribes, and gratuities.»

At Mr. Silver's trial, prosecutors said that he had obtained the illicit payments in return for official actions in two schemes.

A prosecutor in the case, Jason A. Masimore, then questioned him about legislation that the government has alleged was part of three schemes under which Senator Skelos used his position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in payments for his son.

Silver's lawyers argue each of the alleged schemes represents a «routine financial relationship with the entity to which he is allegedly steering business» and does constitute «the sort of «side payment... from a third party» that Skilling requires for a payment to be deemed an illegal bribe or kickback.»

Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president at an energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they engaged in an alleged bribery scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has faced criticism after scaling back a pilot scheme for his flagship universal credit - which will merge dozens of different out - of - work benefits into a single payment with the aim of ensuring an individual is always better off in work than on benefit.

«It will take a few months to set up schemes for paying compensation — particularly for those who will receive regular payments until their deaths — meaning the first payouts will be made next year.»

The government says that in a second scheme, Mr. Silver obtained about $ 700,000 in illegal payments through the law firm Goldberg & Iryami in exchange for having the two developers send the law firm certain tax business.

Silver directed payments from a discretionary fund as part of a bribery scheme that netted him millions in kickbacks, and good - government advocates say they provide a smiliar risk for corruption.

«We advocate complementing any carbon - based management approaches with other incentive schemes such as payment for ecosystem service programmes.»

They bought monster pickup trucks for $ 70,000 dollars, on 8 year payment schemes.

Private schools that elected to participate by accepting vouchers as payment also had to administer the Louisiana state assessment to voucher - receiving students and were graded by the state using the same A-F scheme the state used for its public schools.

This in itself may pose problems for payroll departments trying to determine which scheme is applicable when a payment is made around the time of transition.

«It is open to an authority to include in its scheme a form of loan arrangement for schools which does not operate by way of a licensed deficit but rather by way of actual payments to schools or expenditure by the authority in respect of a particular school on condition that a corresponding sum is repaid from the budget share.»