Fiscal Intermediary (FI) must be available to assist individuals in exercising budget authority. Individuals can perform some or all of the FI functions themselves. Typically, however, individuals prefer that the FI entity performs these functions for them. FI helps individuals:
88% of FFA members are in grades 9-12; 7% are in middle school; 5% are high school graduates. 70% of FFA members live in rural/farm areas; 19% live in small towns; 10% live in urban/suburban areas. FFA chapters are in 18 of the 20 largest U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Public hospitals accounted for 14.1 percent of all stays in 2008 (table 3). Metropolitan public hospitals accounted for 43.3 percent of all public hospital stays, micropolitan public hospitals for 36.0 percent, and rural public hospitals for 20.7 percent (table 4). Figure 1 shows differences between public hospitals by location.