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Both term and whole life insurance policies include a terminal illness rider for free, allowing for an advanced death benefit if the insured is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
—Liz Knueven, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
This allows people to tap into their death benefit while still alive to pay for long-term care.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
As with potential death benefits, none of that money went to Pérez’s family.
—Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
The measure would also establish a $1 million death benefit paid to the family of any officer killed in the line of duty, on top of any existing benefits available.
—Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1867, in the meaning defined above
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“Death benefit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20benefit. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
Legal Definition
death benefit
noun
: money payable to the beneficiary of a deceased as a benefit (as under a policy of life or accident insurance or a pension plan)
Note: The right to death benefits is generally terminated in cases of fraud, as when an insured commits suicide after purchasing a policy or when the beneficiary murders the insured.
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