As is mentioned in [19], two customer satisfaction indices, consumption way index and payment index, are presented in this paper.
Table 1 Trigger values of weather index insurance payment Indices Time period Trigger value Drought index I From 15 May to 31 August Cumulative rainfall <230 mm Drought index II From 1 September to 15 October Cumulative rainfall <15 mm High-temperature index From 30 July to 15 August Highest daily temperature >35 °C for more than 5 days and the cumulative number of degrees over 35 > 8 °C.
The restriction on child benefits, by way of indexing payments to where a child is based, would appear to be optional and at the discretion of the member state paying the benefit.
As it stands now, the White House still has an offer on the table that includes means-testing specific parts of Medicare, and a Social Security benefit cut by indexing payments to something called chained consumer price index.
The UK will be allowed to index the payments to the country where the child is based.
The report urges the government to reconsider the practice of indexing prior payments made by institutions to victims.
When carefully constructed, he says, indexing mortgage payments to house prices would not jeopardize mortgage lenders' stability.
Goldie said the 2014 federal budget – particularly its proposal to index pension payments only according to consumer price index, rather than to the more generous average weekly earnings rate – "is likely to result in higher poverty rates over time".
The agreed damages against Walsall Hospitals NHS trust, approved by Mr Justice Holgate, include a lump sum of £1.45m and annual index-linked payments of £88,000 until the boy is 16, then £120,000 until he is 20 and £145,000 a year from then on.
Mr Justice Baker awarded the family a lump sum of £1.5m, plus index-linked payments of £74,000 a year to cover the costs of his care for life.
Weather index insurance payments are triggered by a single and easily observable and verifiable parameter (index) such as rainfall measurements or temperature records common to a particular village or region – which implies that individuals will not have the opportunity or incentive to manipulate records (Skees et al. 1999; Mahul 2001; Turvey 2001; Osgood et al. 2007; Miranda and Farrin 2012).
