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death benefit

NOUN
insurance or pension money paid out to a deceased person's beneficiary
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The death benefit may not be as advantageous to you, given that you are single with no children.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

“From age 30 to a hypothetical age 90 actual death, that could increase the death benefit two or threefold,” says Weber, who is also treasurer of the Life Insurance Consumer Advocacy Center.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

That is less than half the $800,000 cash-in value of Montana’s policy and a fraction of the death benefit, according to a court challenge she made this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

The railroad company he worked for gave Gianetsas, who could barely speak English at the time, a death benefit worth $1,500.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

An increasing number of unions pay a wife's death benefit as well as the regular death benefit.

From Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by Kennedy, James B.



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