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death benefit

NOUN
insurance or pension money paid out to a deceased person's beneficiary
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Your husband pays $1,200 per year for a $500,000 death benefit.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

“My wife and I don’t have children, so the death benefit isn’t important to us,” the reader wrote.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

They can elect to continue the income over a spouse’s lifetime and add a death benefit for other heirs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 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

He was always telling them to put their energies into societies for the preservation of health and improvement of living conditions, instead of into the too numerous and popular sick benefit and death benefit organizations.

From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)



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