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Recent Examples of overpayment
Without proper checks, the airport can't guarantee contract terms are followed, raising the risk of overpayments.
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Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
The provisions have prompted overpayment issues due to a lack of available data on pensions from noncovered employment, according to the Congressional Research Service.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
However, benefit verifications and processing overpayments will cease, along with a major increase in customer service wait times.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
Respondents described improper adjustments in benefit amounts and overpayment notices, and months of trying to contact the Social Security to clarify.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
The provisions have prompted overpayment issues due to a lack of available data on pensions from noncovered employment, according to the Congressional Research Service.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
However, benefit verifications and processing overpayments will cease, along with a major increase in customer service wait times.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
Respondents described improper adjustments in benefit amounts and overpayment notices, and months of trying to contact the Social Security to clarify.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpayment
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Before pursuing an eviction, CHA works with residents who are behind on rent by setting up payment plans, referring them to financial counseling and nonprofit legal services and searching for rental assistance funds, the authority said.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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But one of the issues in the debate is that House Speaker Matt Ritter of Hartford — a key budget negotiator — has called for making highly visible tax relief that could come in the form of direct payments.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
18 Feb. 2025
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Personal income and remittances also haven’t risen as fast as condo prices, added.—
Ian Sayson,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Countries such as Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia remain unable to reduce their overdependence on foreign aid and remittances, which suppresses productive activity.—
Marwan Muasher,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Feb. 2025
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Each year, the trustees’ compensation will increase by 2%, though the board can vote in May to waive this increase for that year, the municipal code states.—
Samantha Moilanen,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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However, the draft does not include a contentious Trump administration proposal to give the U.S. $500 billion worth of profits from Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv.—
Susie Blann,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk publicly credited his Department of Government Efficiency with discovering the disbursement, but neither Musk nor DOGE are named in the lawsuit.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Inflation rates, which have settled to a still-elevated level of 3 percent, could be further destabilized by such large-scale disbursements.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Overpayment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpayment. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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