claimant

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Claimant numbers, for PIP and Universal Credit payments, have increased significantly in the four years since the pandemic, driven by an increase in those claiming for mental and behavioural problems as their main condition.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

He consistently repeats that the Claimant is Tichborne, whom he’s known since childhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Something of a cause celebre in Victorian England, pitting the working class against the gentry, the Claimant case centred around Roger Tichborne, a 25-year-old aristocrat who was shipwrecked and presumed dead.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018

Mr. Sinclair and his two siblings were also skeptical of the fee the company, Legal Claimant Services, a division of Keane, was seeking: 36 percent of the account’s value.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2013

There were people who believed in Cagliostro, Mormon Smith, Joanna Southcote of Exeter, Mrs. Girling, the Tichborne Claimant, General Boulanger, electric sugar, the South Sea Bubble, and a thousand other exploded humbugs.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John