How to Use transfer payment in a Sentence

transfer payment

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When all transfer payments and taxes are counted, the U.S. redistributes a larger share of its disposable income than any country other than France.
  — Phil Gramm and, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This month, the cathedral is finally receiving its first transferred payment for the reconstruction, valued at 3.6 million euros.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 June 2019
• 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
• Low-income Americans paid roughly 25%, the authors say, although this excludes transfer payments made to the very poorest households: a misleading omission, some critics reckon.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• However, expanding transfer payments to reduce the poverty rate was simply a mathematical achievement.
  — Angela Rachidi, National Review, 8 Jan. 2024
• The Trump administration’s decision to halt federal health insurance transfer payments will lead to uncertainty and market disruption, insurers say.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 9 July 2018
• This is possible if all current forms of messy government transfer payments (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) were substituted for a single, electronic cash payment to each qualifying citizen’s bank account.
  — WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024