Ms. Stewart's company has a guaranteed minimum payment from Kmart, which increases every year.
Still, Yahoo said it would receive a guaranteed minimum payment from Microsoft for the next year in the United States, regardless of how search advertising performs.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has a guaranteed minimum payment from Kmart, but the difference between sales in stores and the guarantee will not be paid until early next year, Mr. Follo said, when Kmart's fiscal year ends.
After a year of on-time payments, you can turn over payment duties (and perhaps encourage your child to have the card issuer pull the minimum payment from a bank account automatically each month, so there's never a late fee).
Steven D. Hayworth, chief executive of Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust, said the wealthy needed to be aware of the potential size of the minimum payments from the trusts they set up.
Effective August 2009, impacted cardmembers will have their minimum payment increased from 2%to5%5% of the statement balance," said Chase spokeswoman Stephanie Jacobson in a statement.
For example, a cardholder carrying a $20,000 balance on one of these long-term fixed rate loans would see his or her minimum payment increase from $400 to $1,000 as a result, according to lawyers for the cardholders.
It was part of a comprehensive budget legislation that the Finance Committee approved by a vote of 20 to 0. And it has not gone unnoticed here that Mr. Roth supported an increase last year in Medicare's minimum payments for pap tests, to $14.60 from $7.15 a test, insuring greater access to health-screening for female patients.
He'd been making minimum payments for years.
Bozza's lawsuit, filed in the federal district court for the southern district of New York, argues that he is due an additional $200,000£130,00000) in damages, having been promised a minimum payment of that amount from Love's publishing advance, as well as potential royalties from sales.
In April 2006, for example, he learned that almost three-quarters of the company's pay-option customers had chosen to make the minimum payment the prior February, up from 60 percent the previous August, according to the S.E.C.'s complaint.
