How to Use transfer payment in a Sentence

transfer payment

noun
  • The transfer payments are funded in part by taxpayers in rich blue areas.
    — Jim Vandehei, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Such transfer payments are the norm at many universities, but not in Chapel Hill.
    — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
  • For example, some income that people receive is in the form of wages and salaries, and some is in the form of government transfer payments.
    — Joshua R. Hendrickson, National Review, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Much of this is transfer payments, but trillions of dollars are general expenditures.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Mobile money — using a mobile phone to transfer payments — is also mainstream in many places and is a lifesaver for people who don’t have the option of bank transfers.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Abundance isn’t achieved by the same old subsidies or tax breaks for special interests, price controls or spending loads of taxpayer money on transfer payments.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 11 July 2024
  • These tax and transfer payments have also demonstrably boosted the incomes of families whose market income — wages, salary, and tips alone — have stagnated.
    — Mark Schmitt, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
  • After the price hikes had taken effect, the cash-transfer payments which go to the poorest 20% of the population were increased; but by then the damage had been done.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • That means that in 10 years, almost a third of all taxes paid by Americans will not be used to finance current government services or transfer payments.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 14 May 2026
  • The delivery of health care is left up to the provinces and territories, which each have their own insurance plans and receive transfer payments from the federal government.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The answer is that modern progressives prefer doling out transfer payments to voters and public workers rather than make long-term investments in subway cars, tunnels and bridges.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • Demand more money for more transfer payments while letting actual public assets like the subways and housing rot from perverse incentives and lack of attention.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • In other words, the top quintile’s share of earnings was 26 times that of the bottom quintile, but after taxes and transfer payments its share of spendable income was only three times as much.
    — Phil Gramm and, WSJ, 24 June 2018
  • Income in these statistics is measured simply as pre-tax money flowing in – wages, dividends, transfer payments, interest – as opposed to wealth, which is a stock of assets.
    — Julie Heath, Cincinnati.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Chechen authorities receive roughly 85 percent of their state budget in the form of federal transfer payments from Moscow.
    — Neil Hauer, Foreign Affairs, 4 Feb. 2019
  • The credit was born as a $500 per-child benefit for middle-income families, but has since degenerated into one more cash transfer payment.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Success has come almost entirely from government transfer payments to poor households, not from improvements in the foundational aspects of a flourishing life.
    — Angela Rachidi, National Review, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Government spending is totally out of control, and the number of people who are partially or wholly dependent on government transfer payments has mushroomed.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The federal government should thus make large transfer payments to businesses (on the condition that those businesses maintain their pre-crisis payrolls) in order to make up for falling demand.
    — Matthew J. Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 26 Mar. 2020
  • However, expanding transfer payments to reduce the poverty rate was simply a mathematical achievement.
    — Angela Rachidi, National Review, 8 Jan. 2024
  • One point of contention is how transfer payments—for example earned income tax credit or Social Security payments—are calculated.
    — Allison Schrager, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The drop in program expenses reflected a number of factors including lower infrastructure transfer payments, the finance department said in the report.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The majority of the cash influx instead went on the final costs of extending the Anfield Road End and meeting those significant transfer payments.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Pandemic transfer payments and student-loan forbearance ended this year, but the employee retention tax credit (ERC) is a Covid giveaway that keeps on giving.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The nonprofit distributor also helps some shops in neighborhoods that aren’t in food deserts but are at risk of losing customers who use electronic benefit transfer payments, more commonly known as EBTs.
    — Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • But scammers are skilled at persuading job seekers to move their conversations to phone calls, conduct interviews over Skype or transfer payments using peer-to-peer cash transfer apps instead of Upwork's payment processing system.
    — NBC News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Trade balances factor heavily into current account balances — a broad measure of countries’ international transactions that also include personal and government transfer payments.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Funding for a sovereign wealth fund, according to Reuters, may come from surplus reserves, trade surpluses, bank reserves, foreign currency operations, money from privatizations and government transfer payments.
    — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In fact, whether or not other OECD nations count their public health services as a transfer payment would have only a small impact on their income distributions since the benefits are supposedly distributed equally to everyone.
    — WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018

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