Under the new program, AOL will double any rebate received by AOL members from merchants signed up with Upromise, including Exxon gas stations, McDonald's and thousands of stores.
B1 A Final Whitman Budget Governor Whitman offered a $23.2 billion spending plan that would double property tax rebate checks for New Jersey homeowners and provide a prescription drug benefit for the middle-income elderly.
But one month earlier Oregon, with its similarly rainy backdrop, doubled its tax rebate on film expenditures such as hotel rooms and coffee for the crew to 20%.
HIGHLIGHTS Tax Rebates, High-Tech and Caretakers MAJOR SPENDING PROGRAMS $300 million to double the property tax rebate for homeowners to about $480 on average.
He wants to double the New Jersey Saver rebate to nearly $500 a year, and to raise the maximum Homestead Rebate, for the elderly and disabled, to $750 from $500.
On Wednesday, Perk Street Financial is planning to announce that it will double, to 2 percent, its rebate on every dollar its checking account customers spend when they sign for purchases using their debit card.
But Mrs. Whitman has also found room in her budget to double the property tax rebate for New Jersey homeowners -- the biggest-ticket item on Mr. DiFrancesco's agenda as a candidate, legislator and soon-to-be acting governor.
It would include more than doubling the size of rebate checks for the elderly, under a program called NJ Saver, from $240, on average, to $500; indexing homestead yearly rebate checks to the rate of inflation, and raising the cap on such rebates from $500, to $750; and increasing a block-grant program of per-capita aid to municipalities, now at $33 million, by $100 million over three years.
Given the proposed rebate budgets, doubling the current rebate is necessary to maximize installations through 2018.
Gov. Christie Whitman unveiled a $23.2 billion spending plan today that incorporates two major proposals of her soon-to-be successor, Senate President Donald T. DiFrancesco: a doubling of the property tax rebate checks for New Jersey homeowners and a new prescription drug benefit for the middle-income elderly.
