But they placed tough conditions on disbursement of the money.
The Social Security system consists of, on the one hand, a disbursement mechanism that provides modest but dependable incomes to the elderly and the disabled and their survivors and dependents, and, on the other hand, a funding mechanism, a 12.4-per-cent flat tax on wages up to ninety thousand dollars a year.
The additional, one-time disbursement, which is intended to supplement lost income that would typically be spent on food, would have averaged about $478 in Puerto Rico, or twice the average monthly benefit.
The option to operate the MoH funds through other federal MST agencies, like FINEP and CNPq, on one hand contributed to speed the organization, judgment and disbursement of funds for the Calls for Proposals, but on the other increased the chance that scientists simply forget the origin of the resources (MoH) and acknowledge them as being MST funds.
On one hand, China has ably influenced the course of global political affairs through deft diplomacy and the multilateral institutions, and the course of the global economy through enormous foreign direct investment, bilateral trade agreements, and disbursement of foreign aid.
The committee was established to make recommendations on fund disbursement.
The Legislature and the governor avoided the record book for tardy budget-making by adopting a skeleton budget on Aug. 3, but negotiations over a final budget -- one that specifies disbursements to the state's 705 school districts -- remained at an impasse as officials headed into the long Labor Day weekend.
At about the same time, Sanders wrote DiCarmine, "We came up with a big one: Reclass the disbursements".
At about the same time, Sanders wrote DiCarmine, "We came up with a big one: Reclass the disbursements". DiCarmine responded, according to the indictment, "You always do in the last hours.
Further south, the Tennessee Valley Authority offers a one-time $500 disbursement and 15 cent-per-kilowatt payment for residences generating surplus power.
