The AMBER Alert Program is a voluntary partnership between law enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
A fee or other charge that is added to the cost of a good or service. A surcharge is typically added to an existing tax, and may not be included in the stated price of a good or service. It may be a temporary measure to defray the cost of increased commodity pricing, such as with a fuel surcharge, or it may be permanent.
ATM fees. While the average ATM surcharge rose 4 percent to $2.60 over the past 12 months, the average foreign fee fell three percent to $1.53 (i.e., the fee assessed by the ATM owner and fee charged by the card-issuing bank).