How to Use death benefit in a Sentence

death benefit

noun

• Establish a $20 penalty fee on every criminal conviction to provide funding for the new state death benefit.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
• 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
• This took the form of financial assistance through death benefits, insurance, health care, and vittles for the poor and hungry.
  — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• 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
• As Forbes points out, cashing out from a life insurance policy has the potential to reduce the death benefit.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 22 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Perhaps in recognition of this concern, the People’s Liberation Army amended its policies to allow parents as well as spouses to claim death benefits for a soldier killed in the line of duty.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024