You would be ill-advised to delay payment for rent.

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If your company agrees to delay payment and actually reports it as paid in January you will probably be successful.

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If it's clear that there's not enough green to cover payroll, it may be time to delay payment of certain bills.

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Ms. Paulsen has used an option to delay payment on much of her debt while the interest accrues, which has caused the total amount owed to balloon by tens of thousands of dollars.

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