How to Use overpayment in a Sentence

overpayment

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  • The woman received an overpayment, via an email check, in the amount of $3,000.
    — cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In that case, the IRS would reduce the amount of a taxpayer's refund to reclaim the overpayment.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Claimants have 30 days from the date postmarked on the letter to apply for the waiver and must attest that the overpayment was the result of no fault of their own, the agency said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021
  • The agency declined to say how many people have been asked to repay overpayments.
    — David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Claimants have the right to appeal an overpayment notice within 15 days.
    — Alison Knezevich, baltimoresun.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The overpayment totals may also rise, the GAO cautioned.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 July 2021
  • At least one estimate says 3% to 10% of health care spending in the U.S. is lost to overpayment, including cases of fraud, waste and abuse.
    — Aneri Pattani, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The issue of Tubridy’s overpayment emerged after an audit of RTE’s 2022 accounts.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • If people already sent in money to settle the overpayment, the state will return their cash, the release stated.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 13 July 2021
  • This sort of overpayment was a problem before the child tax credit’s expansion last year, but is a bigger one now.
    — Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The bill requires the Labor Cabinet to resend letters to anyone who has an overpayment in that time frame.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The agency can waive overpayments when the beneficiary is found not at fault.
    — Fred Clasen-Kelly, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The jury also ordered the farmer to reimburse Tran the $1.4 million overpayment.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The pause will last until at least May 7 while the agency completes its review of claimant accounts that may qualify for overpayment waivers.
    — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Some taxpayers will get refunds, while for others, the IRS will apply the overpayment to taxes due or other debts.
    — Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The agency has declined to say how many people are facing overpayment notices.
    — David Hilzenrath, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Maybe to a form of tax fraud (a curious kind that somehow ended with an overpayment to the federal government).
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • Ukrainian media reports have pointed to overpayments for basic supplies for the army, such as food and winter coats.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, Del Mar, considered by most standards a very successful meet, had a purse overpayment of $2.1 million.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • This was chaos born of desperation, which in turn stemmed from the fact that Musk’s massive overpayment for Twitter left the company saddled with $13 billion of debt.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Then the swindler sends a check, sometimes for too much, and sometimes for the correct amount before either asking for the overpayment to be returned or backing out of the agreement entirely.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • The upshot is that patients and payers are being charged on the order of 20% too much for generic drugs, resulting in billions of dollars in overpayment.
    — Karen Van Nuys, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • These retroactive cuts would acknowledge past overpayments that would need to be taken out of future payments.
    — Christian Barnard, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Any scenario where your friend would need to send money to her potential sugar daddy could be this sort of mistaken overpayment scam and is a red flag.
    — Paco De Leon, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • More than eight in 10 people who needed Covid management drugs had to resort to finding it through clout and connections or via overpayment and bribes.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The absence of a process for determining reasonable rents has led to overpayments that mean fewer people are helped.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The agency also worked to clean up a voucher program that fell under scrutiny for millions in rent overpayment.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • What's the latest on tax overpayment for 2020 jobless benefits?
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But a new report from the agency points to overpayment problems in the retirement and disability programs.
    — Mark Miller, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • This year, Medicare is phasing in a new payment model designed to reduce overpayment.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 5 Feb. 2024

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