Sentences with phrase «receive taxpayer money»

Walker has said he supports subjecting all schools that receive taxpayer money to the same level of scrutiny and has supported legislation aimed at doing that in the past legislative session, including giving report cards to all public, charter and private voucher schools.

Lawmakers debated placing sanctions on poorly performing public and private schools that receive taxpayer money, but those measures were not adopted.

Questions about the legal status of charter schools — which receive taxpayer money but are privately run, usually by nonprofit corporations — are broad, existential ones in Texas, where disputes over school funding are among the Legislature's most contentious.

Planned Parenthood has indicated that 75 \ % of its customers are at or below the 150 \ % mark, indicating PP is receiving taxpayer money for most of its customers.

Soundview receives taxpayer money to provide health care to the underprivileged.

Students pray during chapel service at Hope Prima school in Milwaukee, which receives taxpayer money from vouchers that parents spend on tuition.

We are pressuring the World Bank Group — an international institution that receives taxpayer money — to direct energy funding towards clean energy investments that increase energy access.

Not exact matches

There was a lack of transparency in both the Cisco and Open Text deals, so I am not optimistic that this fund will be run in a way such that taxpayers can determine if they are receiving value for money.

But disbursing taxpayer money is messy, and a quick scan of the companies that received the most small - business dollars in Virginia reveals an anomaly: No. 4 on the list, according to procurement consultant Eagle Eye, is the $ 24 billion behemoth General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).

Taxpayers who receive a fraudulent tax refund should follow IRS guidelines for returning the money.

No government officials involved other than the initial money going in to the companies for the American taxpayer to then receive their equity stakes.

In other words, Quebec and federal taxpayers are being asked to pony up to protect the financial well - being of the family, which, incidentally, received approximately $ 150 million in dividend payments from Bombardier over the last decade, even as the company has yet to repay all the money its borrowed from the federal government in the past.

Kleck just learned that almost immediately after the publication of his study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency that receives more than $ 11 billion of taxpayer money every year, conducted its own study of the matter.

Planned Parenthood's 800 clinics receive more than 300 million dollars of taxpayer money annually.

Accord - and 20 other agencies - have been told they can not discriminate against people on grounds including sexuality if they want to continue receiving taxpayers» money.

Taxpayers are entitled to receive good value for their money, and a Conservative government should always make that a high priority.

At the heart of the government's case is Dr. Robert Taub who received $ 500,000 from Silver in taxpayer money for his Mesothelioma Center at Columbia University.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

• To have the NY GOP nominate for governor a Wall Street Lobbyist who received a $ 1.3 million bonus paid for with taxpayer bailout money... priceless

He says he's already filed papers in two of the cases he's prosecuting to require the politicians, if convicted, to forfeit the amount of money they would receive in the future in taxpayer funded retirement benefits.

The Democratic governor accepted the money — and his officials handed out the government business without competitive bids — despite federal rules that bar campaign contributors from receiving taxpayer - financed state bond work.

LITRG's guide is available from the Group's website via the link: http://www.litrg.org.uk/News/2011/2011-repayments The guide includes: An explanation of who will be getting letters from HMRC Guidance on how to check if HMRC's calculations are accurate Information on what to do if you think the calculation is wrong or incomplete, or you do not understand it Information about how to claim money owed from previous tax years Examples of the letters taxpayers could write in response to receipt of a tax calculation Additionally, a question and answer guide on the 2011 PAYE reconciliation process is available on the website of the Chartered Institute of Taxation: http://tinyurl.com/taxqa2011 LITRG Chairman John Andrews said: «Taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC need to check their calculations carefully — even if the letter says they are getting taxpayers could write in response to receipt of a tax calculation Additionally, a question and answer guide on the 2011 PAYE reconciliation process is available on the website of the Chartered Institute of Taxation: http://tinyurl.com/taxqa2011 LITRG Chairman John Andrews said: «Taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC need to check their calculations carefully — even if the letter says they are getting Taxpayers receiving letters from HMRC need to check their calculations carefully — even if the letter says they are getting a refund.

Cantankerous taxpayers might best know this firm for receiving $ 2.6 million of their money in February for their work representing Mayor de Blasio through a pair of corruption probes.

«For too long in the public sector, trade unions have received taxpayer funding that is poor value for money and inadequately controlled.

Mr. Fischer claims that because Mr. Cruz is receiving federal funds for his campaign, «any «fraudulent» or otherwise ineligible candidate causes the waste and squandering of U.S. taxpayer monies.»

Changing withholding tables would result in taxpayers getting more money back in their paychecks immediately, instead of receiving a larger income tax refund.

«Pamela Harris has not only stolen thousands of dollars in taxpayers money, but she is still receiving her salary even though she is not showing up to work.

Just received from CCHQ: «Parliamentary Questions, buried by John Prescott and yet to be published in Hansard, have today revealed that Prescott has spent # 645 of taxpayers money on a new sign for his office — replacing the previous «Office of the Deputy Prime Minister» sign with a new «Deputy Prime Minister's Office» sign.

Intense public anger at the apparent misuse of the money followed the revelation that the # 420,576 received by the Tories and the # 99,423 pocketed by the Lib Dems had actually been intended for taxpayers.

Officials at local agencies receiving the grant money said that the funds paid for crime - fighting activities that would otherwise come from local taxpayers or, in this era of tightening budgets, not be funded at all.

Last year, Malloy and his Republican opponent, Tom Foley, each received more than $ 6 million in taxpayer funds for his campaign, on the promise that each wouldn't accept state contractors» money.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

«But I'm committed to ensuring that our government uses taxpayer money wisely and that the North Country receives its fair share,» he said.

This legislation would: create a uniform policy for all branches of state and local government and establish a dedicated unit to receive and investigate sexual harassment claims, ensure individual liability to promote greater accountability, prohibit confidentiality agreements unless the victim requests that his or her identity be kept private, and put in place necessary safeguards to allow government to recoup monies to rightly protect hardworking taxpayers from being on the hook for individual acts of sexual harassment.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed election grants.

Tedisco and other lawmakers asked whether taxpayers owed the rebates could receive interest on the late payments, and whether those owed money could pay their taxes late.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy today responded to some of the criticism he received this week after we first reported that he was using his private campaign donations for $ 1,900 a month apartment when he's Albany, saying it's better than using taxpayer money.

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Ben Gummer MP wants every taxpayer to receive personalised statement of how their hard - earned money has been spent

Since 1996, the Darwin Martin House has received a total of nearly $ 50 million in funding for renovation and preservation, with $ 30 million of that is taxpayer money from Erie County and New York State.

Thus fund manager Nicola Horlick, mother of five, receives over # 300 a month of taxpayers» money — petty cash for her that probably pays for only a fraction of the household flower bill.

One British think - tank quoted # 10,306 to write a single blog post and another received # 23,000 in taxpayers» money to write a two - page policy brief.

Murphy receives a lucrative flow of taxpayer money via the county welfare system.

Property taxpayers already receive a portion of their own money back that they paid in taxes, if their school or local government further holds the line on spending beyond the state's two percent per year property tax cap.

Maroney and Jobson were presumably so scared of not receiving the one - man - band Conservative Party line in November handed out by Lettre to his puppets, that they voted against their own Republican caucus to spend another $ 2.5 million of taxpayers» money and send the Conservative Party Chairman home happy.

Proponents of Initiative 42 argued that the state needs to spend more on education; that schools are not receiving enough money from taxpayers and this is the cause of our public education woes.

Ofsted could try to justify the # 142 million a year it receives in taxpayers» money by re-engineering its focus on safeguarding, for example.

Since 2014, Trinity Christian has received more than $ 1.2 million in taxpayer funds through the Opportunity Scholarships Program, which provides low - income families money to attend private schools.

All districts (or their taxpayers) receive extra money for specific programs (such as special adjustment aid, school levy tax credits, categorical aid and integration aid), regardless of wealth or tax effort.

In 2014, the state moved to terminate an underperforming private school from the Milwaukee voucher program that had operated for almost four years without accreditation — and received more than $ 1 million in taxpayer money during that time.