How to Use death benefit in a Sentence

death benefit

noun

• So if someone dies and there is no spouse, the $255 death benefit cannot be paid.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2021
• So, if someone dies, and there is no spouse, the $255 death benefit cannot be paid.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 4 June 2023
• In the mid-1990s, AT&T ceased telling most new employees that their spouse would get a death benefit.
  — Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
• In most cases, this type of product will hide the true cost by mixing it with a death benefit.
  — Nathan Bachrach, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Focus on policies that pay the full death benefit from the outset.
  — John Egan, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
• The military death benefit can also be rolled over to a Roth IRA.
  — Leonard Sloane, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• But now when your mom died, there is no surviving spouse, so no death benefit.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
• In that event, the only survivor benefit that could be paid is the onetime death benefit of $255.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• The law says that miserly little one-time death benefit can only be paid to a surviving spouse.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
• This is what is known as a cash refund option (commonly known as a death benefit).
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2019
• Rodman spoke to reporters after the bill to fill gaps in current death benefits was not heard by the House budget committee.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2018
• Much of the budget now goes to military equipment orders and high salaries and death benefits for soldiers and their families.
  — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• This death benefit is a holdover from the very earliest days of the Social Security program.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 26 June 2022
• In the event of a succeeding partner’s passing, will the death benefit be enough to buy out the deceased partner’s stake in the company and distribute it to the other partners?
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• When the policy holder passes away, the buyer receives the death benefit.
  — Rob Levin, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Lopez says the widows and their families are being denied death benefits at an alarming rate.
  — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Matthew O’Shea that will provide a death benefit to spouses of Chicago first responders who died by suicide.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2022
• But because he wasn't married to his fiancée, their children were not entitled to full death benefits.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2019
• The death benefit is paid only on the account of someone who worked and paid Social Security taxes.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2022
• Barbish had prepared the script: The money will be spent on disabled agents, death benefits, bulletproof vests.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• Dividends can be used to reduce the cost of premiums, to increase the cash value and/or death benefit of life insurance, or be taken in cash.
  — Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
• These policies allow consumers to tap their death benefits early to pay for costs such as help with feeding, bathing and other personal needs.
  — Neal Templin, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2018
• If the person who is insured passes away during the time period specified in the policy and the policy is in force, a death benefit will be paid.
  — Brandon Marz, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• The agency further granted Dresden a monthly death benefit of $607.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• But in the state of New Jersey, as in other states, Scherzer was not entitled to death benefits because her husband died of suicide, which is not considered a line of duty death.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2019
• The policies pay for counseling services and victim death benefits.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2018
• The trust can then reinvest the proceeds into other assets or a wealth replacement vehicle (such as life insurance), the death benefit being triggered at the same time the term of the note ends, such as your death.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 22 May 2021
• In any event, the insurer never pays a death benefit, an advantage the insurance industry has come to rely on.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• But now, three years earlier than that, the company is telling this grandmother the cash value of her policy will dwindle away to nothing later this year, and the death benefit will be gone, too.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2018
• Term life policies, which generally expire after 10 to 20 years, offer no death benefit or payout at the end, as opposed to whole life policies, which do.
  — Ed Leefeldt, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024