The unions agreed to a one-time check for substance abuse and, more important, according to some experts, all the crafts agreed to start work at 7 A.M.

Advocates say the plans allow workers to get big one-time checks when they retire, at potentially no additional cost.

Because of that one-time check, the couple, married 15 years today, are now on securer financial ground.

Taxpayers, the Billionaires noted in a flier that they handed out, received from the government "a one-time check of about $400 or so."

Over the first six months of 2002, 675 Polaroid employees bailed out, taking one-time checks that drained the pension plan of $81 million.

In January, 2008, TRS issued a one-time "13th" check to approximately 245,000 eligible retirees.

The TRS Board of Trustees approved the one-time, additional check in November 2007.

The program pays one-time checks of $40 to $350 for heating supplies.

People who qualify for the one-time check do not need to sign up, since their checks are mailed automatically when they enter the donut hole.

It is not a tax cut - it is a one-time check written out to only 20 percent of the property taxpayers in this city.