The report also said that program agencies had made more than $3 million in excess payments to some participants.

In the first quarter, those excess payments totaled $9 million.

Defense Department audits on the program contend that excess payments have been made to the companies.

It has also introduced excess payments for when goods are stolen from people's cars.

The union suggested that excess payments could have been made to the trade association's chapters by their apprenticeship programs to support political activities.

The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily.

Theoretically, Wall Street firms could be compelled to pay back excess payments.

The classical definition is expressed as any excess payment above that required to induce or provide for production.

For him, success was saving the city millions of dollars in potential cost overruns and excess payments to contractors.

A private plan may use some of the excess payments they receive from the government for each enrollee to offer supplemental benefits.

He said consumers are opting for "budget" policies that either have large excess payments or exclude outpatient treatment.

Those excess payments offset the nest egg.

A compulsory excess is the minimum excess payment the insurer will accept on the insurance policy.

Mr. Florio then withdrew $769 million that he deemed to be excess payments deposited under the former rules.

Those excess payments bring in about 30 percent of Eurotunnel's revenues, and the contract requiring the payments ends that year.

And Medicare officials have written to some doctors warning them that taking excess payment under contract leaves them open to prosecution, fines and sanctions.

As such, United Gas was required to refund the excess payments made under the new rate schedule to Mobile Gas.

Mr. Tapps was reprimanded by the union, which ordered that the excess payments be given by the agents to Equity's emergency fund.

"The excess payments were much larger in California counties with a large proportion of their Medicare beneficiaries in H.M.O.'s."

- Retailers who have been the victims of looting, arson or other attacks will be able to claim against their insurance with an excess payment, typically around £250.

Once the authorised garage has completed the repairs, the policyholder would then pay that garage their excess payment and the insurers would pay the remainder.

Opposing Plano and the other wealthy-district plaintiffs were the property-poor districts whose spending has gone up from receipt of the excess payments of the rich districts.

But in a written response to the inspector general, Ms. DeParle disagreed with the recommendation that she seek legislation allowing Medicare to recover the excess payments.

What many experts consider excess payments for surgical and diagnostic procedures may also be harming patients, medical experts say, by encouraging doctors to subject them to unneeded procedures.

House members who have exceeded the limits for speaking fees and outside earned income frequently contribute any excess payments to charities and list such transactions on their financial disclosure forms.