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Expected to Help 30% of Idaho's 213,000 Medicare Beneficiaries Who Land in the Rx 'Doughnut Hole' - AARP Tips for Recipients
BOISE, Idaho, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Older Idahoans living in fear of the cost of their next prescription drug may be getting some good news in the mail in the coming days; a $250 check to help. The checks are being mailed automatically to Idaho Medicare beneficiaries who fall into the dreaded Part D prescription drug coverage gap know as the "doughnut hole" - which leaves many stuck paying full price for their drugs, a cost many simply can't afford.
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WASHINGTON -- Ordering lawbreakers to pay fines is one thing. Getting them to pay is a different matter.
The vast majority of penalties imposed in enforcement cases brought by the top cop on the commodities trading beat have gone uncollected.
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About 1,600 people wrongfully strip-searched at the Allegheny County Jail should receive checks in the mail this week, unless they're behind on child-support payments.
Aaron Rihn, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the county, said the company handling $3 million in settlement claims planned to start mailing checks on Friday, although some last-minute trouble clarifying who's entitled to a share of the damages could have delayed the disbursement.
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Out-of-state company shipping nearly 700,000 checks to New Mexicans
Checks: All rebates from Utah should be in the mail by Friday
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About 1,600 people wrongfully strip-searched at the Allegheny County Jail should receive checks in the mail this week, unless they're behind on child-support payments.
Aaron Rihn, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the county, said the company handling $3 million in settlement claims planned to start mailing checks on Friday, although some last-minute trouble clarifying who's entitled to a share of the damages could have delayed the disbursement.
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The $400 rebate check is the City's way of thanking New York's homeowners for doing their part to keep our City fiscally sound," said Mayor [Michael K. Bloomberg]. "I want to thank the Department of Finance, as well as the City Council and the State Legislature, for making sure that money will continue to go back into the pockets of hard working New Yorkers.
"As the City's tax collector, it's nice to have an opportunity once in a while to give money back," said Finance Commissioner [Martha E. Stark]. "At Finance, our mission is to help people pay the right amount on time, which means making sure people get their rebate checks in the right name at the right address."
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Assembly Democrats are on a campaign to save property tax rebates and they've fingered $450 million in supposedly wasted state money that should go to pay for the popular checks.
After nearly six weeks of budget hearings and with help from the state auditor, Democrats on Wednesday outlined a package of cutbacks designed to get the rebates back into the $24.7 billion budget outlined by acting Governor Codey.
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Some 1,200 lucky freshmen enrolled at public universities and colleges in Wisconsin this fall will get a pleasant surprise in the mail next month.
They'll be the first recipients of scholarships from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars, a private, nonprofit foundation created by a donation of $175 million from philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge last year.
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Subcontractors who are owed roughly $4 million for renovation work at San Bernardino International Airport soon could be getting checks in the mail.
Members of the Inland Valley Development Agency board on Wednesday authorized payments to the subcontractors for work done on a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility and the passenger terminal.
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