How to Use pay into in a Sentence

pay into

verb
  • Once that threshold is reached, high earners no longer pay into the program for the year.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Now that’s paying into a bill for costs that the hostel doesn’t even need to absorb.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 6 June 2026
  • Earnings from your sales are all paid into your Depop Balance.
    — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Earnings from your sales are all paid into your Depop Balance.
    — Emily Canal, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Stone also brought up the nearly $70 million the county has paid into that fund.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Hotels in the resort area paid into ATN based on the number of rooms.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The transit agency gets money from hotels that pay into the system based on the number of rooms and from rider fares.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Americans pay into it through taxes on their paychecks and premiums.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But advocates say that failing to pay into the fund threatens to do more than delay promised improvements to the sector.
    — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
  • These funds come from taxpayers like you, me, and my kids who pay into the system but then have no say in how that money is used until the general election.
    — Torsha Childs, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The aim is to prevent the level of pensions from falling and ward off the need for a big long-term increase of the levy employees pay into the pension system.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • The aim is to prevent the level of pensions from falling and ward off the need for a big, long-term increase of the levy employees pay into the pension system.
    — ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • The Mets also have to pay into MLB’s revenue-sharing system as a top revenue club.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Americans pay into Medicare through taxes on their paychecks and premiums.
    — Laura Geller, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Lawmakers are now calling for audits, while consumers continue paying into the program through their utility bills.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Pension fund explained For decades, county workers have paid into a pension plan with the expectation of a steady income in retirement.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Baby boomers are retiring at a rapid pace, and there are fewer younger workers paying into the system for every senior collecting monthly benefits.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 June 2026
  • Workers pay into them, and the city doesn’t have to pay Social Security, which saves money every year compared to private businesses.
    — Nicole Crosby, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The more the worker paid into Social Security, the higher the monthly benefit.
    — Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The fewer younger Americans there are, the fewer workers exist to pay into the system that supports more than 70 million retirees and others.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Workers pay into Social Security with a levy split between employers and employees.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The plan is an insurance pool that all the major private insurers pay into, and the plan then issues policies to people who can’t get private insurance because their properties are deemed too risky to insure.
    — Tran Nguyen, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • For instance, in Miami, a developer can pay into a fund and be granted the right to build 20 extra stories, regardless of the size of the lot or the subsoil below.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
  • Increase the payroll tax rate The money Americans pay into Social Security comes from a payroll tax.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Increase the payroll tax rate The money Americans pay into Social Security comes from a payroll tax.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Increasing the taxable wage base will not likely be popular with businesses, given employers already pay into the state’s unemployment insurance fund.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • When someone who paid into Social Security dies, their family members may be eligible for survivor benefits.
    — Miranda Marquit, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Feb. 2026
  • When a school district or school administrator is accused of wrongdoing in a lawsuit, thelegal defense is usually paid for by a collective pool of money paid into by school districts and subsidized by taxpayers.
    — Wendy Killeen, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Social Security survivor benefits can pay eligible spouses, former spouses, children and dependent parents of a worker who paid into the system.
    — Christine Michel Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Taxpayers, who pay into Medicare during their working years, stand to benefit if the pilot can cut long-term Medicare costs, an important goal given Medicare’s growing budget crisis.
    — Grace MacKleby, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026

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