As a result, low monthly payments can obscure the potential for high costs later on.

Two, it can decline the option and negotiate a lower payment, which makes sense.

Most of those cuts would come in lower payments to hospitals and nursing homes.

Benefit: Allows the purchase of a home with a low down payment.

Usually, the higher the score, the better the deal, which can mean lower monthly payments and other savings.

Instead, farmers would receive fixed, slightly lower payments for seven years.

One received $7,110, the maximum allowed, and the lowest payment so far was $904.

One result, they say, would be lower payments to doctors and hospitals that could lead them to leave the program.

But the lower payment has not made her finances any easier.

This makes the minimum payment even lower than a comparable 30-year term.