Thesaurus results for BENEFICIARIES

beneficiaries

noun

plural of beneficiary

as in claimants

someone who inherits something when someone dies He named his only child as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy.

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Recent Examples of beneficiaries Wolfe initiates DraftKings and Flutter as outperform The firm said both stocks are prediction market beneficiaries. — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 Your beneficiary designations on accounts with direct beneficiaries, including retirement accounts, life insurance, and transfer-on-death bank and brokerage accounts. — Cicely Jones, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 More affordably, starting last month, eligible Medicare beneficiaries were able to receive GLP-1s for obesity for $50 per month by prescription. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026 Social Security benefits are typically disbursed to nearly 74 million beneficiaries on Wednesdays, but your exact payment date depends on your birth date. — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Assets held in a trust or structured to pass directly to beneficiaries can generally avoid probate. — Elizabeth Rosner, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026 Uncle Sam allows insurers to deny necessary procedures to their beneficiaries. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026 Starting in July, Medicare began allowing eligible beneficiaries to get obesity drugs for $50 a month. — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026 The state has the nation’s highest proportion of its population living in rural areas and an above-average share of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026

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Only about a third resulted in discretionary payments, totaling less than 4% of what claimants had sought.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
In 2000, when a small tanker carrying no liability insurance and no class certificate sank off Abu Dhabi, the Funds paid claimants in the United Arab Emirates anyway.

— Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026

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