Sentence examples for cap on payments from inspiring English sources

WELFARE The Tories would lower the benefit cap on payments to one household from £26,000 to £23,000 a year "to reward work".

The government cap on payments for medical services is thought to have encouraged doctors to perform off-the-books, and potentially far more lucrative, services like illegal abortions.

Ms. Gillibrand's amendment would lower the cap on payments made directly to crop insurance companies to service and sell policies to $825 million per year from $1.3 billion.

He also said the assessor would take greater account of previous convictions and acts contributing to the conviction, and brought in a £500,000 cap on payments.

But there is a cap on payments, set at just over $300 for the year, which Mr. Julinek said would also protect the seriously ill.

Business groups have also pushed for legislation imposing a cap on payments to whistle-blowers, arguing that rewards reaching as high as $104 million, as happened in one case, have turned anti-fraud efforts into a lottery.

Christopher D. Bernard, president of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, said the governor's proposed cap on payment for damages would be unfair to people, like senior citizens, housewives and children, who do not have wages that damages can be based on in cases of malpractice.

In addition, most of the states offering coverage had caps on payments for medical care.

Fat chance; Congress regularly does the opposite when it rolls back caps on payments to doctors and hospitals.

And there's interest in setting per capita caps on payments to state governments for Medicaid, the health program for the poor.

If the cap was breached — as it almost certainly would eventually be — Mr. Ryan blithely says, "Congress would be required to intervene". Fat chance; Congress regularly does the opposite when it rolls back caps on payments to doctors and hospitals.