Sentences with phrase «which stipend»

Payroll records sent to the state comptroller's office list lawmakers next to the erroneous committee chair titles, but officials insist the document was merely to show which lawmaker was due which stipend.

Senate officials have insisted the arrangement is legal and the lawmakers were listed as chairs in order to designate which stipend they were in line to receive, not as part of an effort to deceive.

On the second, the Senate is relying on its legal interpretation of Legislative Law 5 - A, which spells out who gets which stipend.

Senate officials have maintained no laws were broken and that the use of the records was meant to designate which lawmaker was owed which stipend.

If a participant leaves their employment (for any reason) before they have completed the 18 - month period for which their stipend was approved, they may not continue in the program or reapply from another facility.

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A guaranteed stipend by which to live decently, for the most part, would mean little need to work.

She cut her housing costs by going back home to live with her parents in Sherborn, Massachusetts, for six months, and then accepted a fellowship with the Kauffman Foundation, which included housing in Kansas City, Missouri, and a small stipend.

Last summer, 47 full - time MBAs participated in the Entrepreneurial Summer Internship Program, which only provides a living stipend for some students working at early - stage startups, compared to 40 students in the summer of 2011.

It provides its employees with a monthly wellness stipend worth $ 60, which can cover a VIP membership in some gyms.

You can do this when you retire by buying so - called immediate annuities, which start paying you a monthly stipend right away.

During the last labour stoppage, NHL players received a monthly stipend from the players» union, which totaled US$ 10,000 for November and December, followed by monthly payments between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000.

Working alongside YEP staff, youth are paid an educational stipend while they learn vital hard and soft skills which help them get and keep jobs.

The idea of basic income — in which the government gives all citizens a small monthly stipend — has grown popular in tech circles, not in the least because it's seen as a possible solution to the looming problem of robots, artificial intelligence, and automation taking jobs away from human workers.

The one - year, full - time fellowship (which can be extended to a second year) includes housing and a modest stipend.

The main difference that is noticed in a modern Catholic funeral is the abundance of flowers and candles, (which have become the universal mark of condolence) and almost in inverse proportion, the scarcity of Mass cards and Mass stipends.

James Tolhurst FAITH MAGAZINE November - December 2015 The main difference that is noticed in a modern Catholic funeral is the abundance of flowers and candles, (which have become the universal mark of condolence) and almost in inverse proportion, the scarcity of Mass cards and Mass stipends.

English bishops are now generally freed from the responsibility of maintaining the medieval mansions in which some of them still reside; their salaries are now with a few exceptions equalized at # 2000 - # 2500, while most English dioceses achieve a minimum stipend for incumbents of # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries ago.

While Emmert has always parroted the NCAA's message about amateurism, he was at the helm of the organization as it instituted full cost of attendance stipends which go above the traditional room and board scholarships.

O'Bannon's case pressured the NCAA into allowing schools to offer the «full cost of attendance,» which is an annual stipend worth several thousand dollars.

We sat down with our kids and looked closely at their day - to - day lives and then decided on what we would pay for such as clothing, cell phone plans and after - school activities and sports fees and then gave them a budget for the rest such as entertainment (the price of a movie ticket once a month), gifts (birthdays, holidays, church), their craving for school cafeteria food — which we capped at twice a week — plus a small stipend.

At the Brennan Center in 2004, Creelan wrote what has become an ur - text of state government dysfunction, which was especially withering of the arrangement in which state lawmakers receive «lulus» or stipends for leadership and committee posts.

We are within the law to allow the temporary president, which is Senator John Flanagan, to determine who gets stipends.»

Following his arrest in the spring of 2009, Parker was stripped by Senate Democratic leaders (at the time, Senate President Malcolm Smith still held the majority leader title) of his posts as majority whip and Energy Committee chairman, which carried a $ 22,000 stipend.

The talking points from Senate Republicans and the Independent Democratic Conference justifying the arrangement in which non-committee chairs are paid stipends normally designated for those jobs breaks down in two broad categories:

Seven lawmakers in the Senate receive stipends under the arrangement in which they are reported to the comptroller's office for holding the post of chair of a committee when they do not actually hold that post.

Those documents show several occasions in which lawmakers were falsely labeled committee chairs when they did not hold that title and claim the lawmakers were entitled to receive a paid stipend for that post.

Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into the arrangement in which seven state lawmakers, including three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, have received stipends and were listed as committee chairs on official payroll records sent to the comptroller's office.

Lawmakers in the Republican and Independent Democratic Conference spent the week insisting the arrangement in which non-committee chairs receive paid stipends is a legal one.

Payroll documents sent to the state comptroller's office list chair titles next to lawmakers» names, but officials have insisted the designation was meant to show which lawmaker was in line for the specific stipend.

Lawmakers are being scrutinized for the system in which up to seven senators have received paid stipends or «lulus» for committee chairmanships they do not actually hold.

There have been subpoenas issued, increasingly curious law enforcement and dark comedy, including at an annual correspondents» variety show last week, which featured an actor dressed as Lulu, the Legislative Stipend Fairy, tossing bags of money onstage, as a fake newscaster gawked.

For his part, Republican John Flanagan, the Senate majority leader, can name members to head committees, which means they collect stipends.

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.

Traditionally, the majority leader post, which carries a stipend — or lulu — of $ 34,500, has been held by an upstate Democrat because the speaker has been from New York City.

«I stand by the hard work of our members and will continue to accept a stipend for the hard work they do in connection with their committees,» said Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx), who leads the IDC which has a power - sharing agreement with the Republican majority.

«So far, we have 455, 857 poor and vulnerable households uploaded onto the National Social Register, from which 297, 973 households have been mined and are being mined and being paid stipends in 20 states,» she said.

But, government reform groups are in favor of the pay raise, as long as it is accompanied by reforms — including banning or severely restricting outside income (which factored into the corruption convictions of two former legislative leaders), and eliminating extra stipends for committee chairs and leadership posts.

The process involves completing a form and submitting it to the Senate payroll office, which would facilitate the return of the stipend.

In addition to Senate Republicans that have benefited from the practice, three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, which has a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP, receive stipends despite not serving as committee chairs or having leadership posts.

The statement further added, «All students under this award are either Masters» or PhD students and therefore utilize part of their stipend to fund their research works, as a result, most students have suspended their research works, which if further delayed will not guarantee their timely graduation.»

He said the administration also made impacts through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which feeds 3,065,000 pupils in 14 states and has employed 36,000 cooks across the country; the Conditional Cash Transfer that has seen about over 30,000 households benefit from the N5, 000 monthly stipend; the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under which about 120,000 people have benefited from the cooperative loans; and the N - power that has employed 200,000 people.

According to records from the State Comptroller's office, the Senate majority, which comprises Senate Republicans and the IDC, identified Peralta as a committee chair when requesting the stipend.

Some Assemblymembers have been accused, and one was convicted of abusing the system, which provides a fixed stipend of $ 172 a day for hotel and meal expenses.

«They will continue to be vice chairs of committees and accept their lulu, or stipend, which they are entitled to,» said Klein.

But Mr. Flanagan's remarks seemed to do little to quell the questions around the stipend deal, which Senate Democrats have seized on as a powerful cudgel to attack the Republicans and their partners in the Independent Democratic Conference, an eight - member breakaway group that helps the G.O.P. maintain leadership in the Senate.

Senate staffers send documents to the New York State Comptroller's Office each year listing the leadership position for which each senator should be paid his or her stipend.

This year alone, three Senate Republicans held chairmanships of lesser paying committees but instead took the higher stipends from the panels where they served as vice chairs, which under law do not come with pay.

On Monday, the New York Post reported that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D — Manhattan) announced support for state lawmakers raising their salaries, which are now set at a base of $ 79,500 - a-year, with many receiving stipends for chairing or serving on committees, which takes them up to an average between $ 90,00 to $ 100,000 per year.

Albany Law School Professor Michael Hutter in a radio interview on Friday was skeptical as to whether any laws were broken in the arrangement in which senators receive stipend payments reserved for jobs they don't actually hold.

«If you recalled that the management claimed that a total of 260,000 prospective participants were mobilized in the two streams last year and each corper collects a stipend of N500.So if you remove four days it means that N2000 should be the surplus from each participant for those 4 days meaning that if you compute the total by the number of corpers mobilized which officially stood at 260,000, in that case the Federal government ought to have been refunded the sum of N520 million.