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The federal government had been reimbursing states — many of them struggling from large drops in tax revenue — for only 75 percent of their National Guard costs associated with coronavirus relief.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2021

Kurdistan’s regional government had been reimbursing impoverished Yazidi families who paid up to $15,000 in fees to smugglers to rescue their relatives, or the ransoms demanded by individual fighters to give up the captives.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2016

For some years, Ewing Township had been reimbursing parents out of tax money for bus fares paid by their children traveling to & from school.

From Time Magazine Archive