Either way, your total costs will probably be about the same, but the larger payments reduce a big expense when the lease is up.

Those payments, in effect, reduce the rent the tenant pays.

The payments effectively reduce a hospital's supply costs, so if a hospital failed to report those payments, it could constitute Medicare fraud.

Even minimal child-support payments would reduce the financial burden on her, and substantial ones could allow her to work less.

That payment reduced the monthly cost of the balance of the lease by $118, putting an otherwise unaffordable car within my reach.

Families benefit in two ways because a higher down payment also reduces monthly mortgage costs, said Joseph T. Sanseverino, the director of the county agency.

The lump-sum payment will reduce the cost of certain G.M. benefits that are based on salary.

This means that the borrower's monthly payments cover only the interest and do not reduce the principal.

Those payments "would reduce the U.S. defense burden by more than $7.7 billion a year," the subcommittee said.

Also, some deductions and payments from workers will reduce NMW pay.