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

The elderly Bogle’s measured support of the Claimant stands in contrast to much of the court proceedings, as well as the shouting crowds at his events.

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

With the least possible delay, the Claimant is got into the brougham, the door is banged to, and the bay mare is driven swiftly through the Yard, the crowd closing in behind.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir