How to Use death benefit in a Sentence

death benefit

noun
  • But now when your mom died, there is no surviving spouse, so no death benefit.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Focus on policies that pay the full death benefit from the outset.
    — John Egan, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The amount used for care is subtracted from the death benefit, which means less money for heirs.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • So if someone dies and there is no spouse, the $255 death benefit cannot be paid.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The death benefit is usually tax-free to whomever claims it.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026
  • So, if someone dies, and there is no spouse, the $255 death benefit cannot be paid.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 4 June 2023
  • This is what is known as a cash refund option (commonly known as a death benefit).
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2019
  • Lump-sum death payment A spouse may get a one-time death benefit of $255.
    — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Lump sum death benefits and benefits paid to children are not included in the levy program.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Lopez says the widows and their families are being denied death benefits at an alarming rate.
    — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • As with potential death benefits, none of that money went to Pérez’s family.
    — Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2024
  • When the policy holder passes away, the buyer receives the death benefit.
    — Rob Levin, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In that event, the only survivor benefit that could be paid is the onetime death benefit of $255.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • 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
  • The military death benefit can also be rolled over to a Roth IRA.
    — Leonard Sloane, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • At death, any amount left over in the accumulation value (but not in the income account) becomes a death benefit.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Second, tax diversification - whole life offers tax-free growth and death benefits, plus tax-free loans against cash value.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 mid-1990s, AT&T ceased telling most new employees that their spouse would get a death benefit.
    — Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Another option is to purchase a life insurance policy with a long-term care rider, which permits you to use some or all of the death benefit to cover long-term care.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Another option is to purchase a life insurance policy with a long-term care rider, which permits you to use some or all of the death benefit to cover long-term care.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026

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