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How to use the word lump-sum in a Sentence?

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It's not just immediate annuities anymore, where you hand over a lump sum of money all at once, there are a lot of different options now that can meet different needs of plan participants and employers.

Melissa Kahn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Generous insurance benefits and lump sum payments with few restrictions on out-of-network providers are a real problem that needs to be addressed by health insurers and legislators, the current system makes it way too easy for fraud to be committed and lives to be destroyed. The issue regarding how insurers use contract provisions to prohibit Assignment of Benefits is under review. Our goal is to establish guidelines that will protect the consumer while allowing insurers the ability to control health care costs. Our concern is provisions like these can be exploited and we are researching ways to address this issue.

Mike Causey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Hashid prefer a lump sum to distribute to fighters as it sees fit, to control its own budget, similar to the defense and interior ministries. And at the moment, the government does not want to approve that.

Sajad Jiyad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think it should be a position where the only people who get on the property ladder are those who have parents who can give them a big lump sum, i don't think that's socially acceptable.

Ann Nolan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't think it should be a position where the only people who get on the property ladder are those who have parents who can give them a big lump sum, you can't have a position where people who are earning their own money, renting a long-term property and paying more than a mortgage, have a proven track record can never get on the housing market. I don't think that's socially acceptable.

Ann Nolan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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