Beneficiary

(noun)

One who benefits or receives an advantage.

Related Terms

Examples of Beneficiary in the following topics:

  • Positive Externalities

    • The people taking the action may also enjoy the additional benefits described above, but initiators of actions are not considered beneficiaries of externalities.
    • The problem with positive externalities is that the people who create these advantages cannot charge the beneficiaries; the beneficiaries can "free ride," or benefit without paying.

  • Defining Health, Health Care, and Medical Care

    • For most of us, health care insurance is generally purchased on a capital market by a policy-holder (who may be a company the beneficiary works for or the beneficiary themselves, depending upon the profession and contractual obligations of an employer).
    • There are many large health care insurance providers out there, offering this service to prospective beneficiaries.

  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act

    • Because of COBRA certain former employees, retirees, spouses, former spouses, and dependent children ("qualified beneficiaries") the right to temporary continuation of health coverage at group rates.
    • ERISA was enacted to protect the interests of employee benefit plan participants and their beneficiaries by:
    • Requiring the disclosure of financial and other information concerning the plan to beneficiaries.

  • Social Security Legislation

    • In 1937, OASDI had 53,236 beneficiaries and cost the federal government $1,278,000.
    • In 2008, it had 50,898, 244 beneficiaries and cost the federal government $615,344,000,000.
    • However, by 2037, the Social Security Trust Fund reserves will be exhausted and payments to beneficiaries will drop to about 75% of what they would have otherwise received.

  • Types of Marketing Channels

    • This one goes in the reverse direction and may go -- from consumer to intermediary to beneficiary.
    • There is another distinction between reverse channels and the more traditional ones -- the introduction of a beneficiary.
    • You'll only find a User or a Beneficiary.

  • Types of Social Responsibility: Philanthropy

    • In this way, these beneficiaries of philanthropy demonstrate both a responsible use of the funds they have received and evidence of their performance relative to their mission.

  • Age and Income

    • But by 2037, the Trust Fund reserves will be exhausted and payments to beneficiaries will drop to about 75% of what they would normally receive.
    • If the Federal Government is unable to or decides not to pay this money back, the reserves will run out sooner, reducing the payments to beneficiaries at an earlier date.

  • Neglected Americans and the New Deal

    • The New Deal agenda stipulated that up to 10% of all the programs' beneficiaries must be African Americans  (approximately equal to the rate of black population in the U.S.).
    • Around 10% of the youth program beneficiaries were black.
    • Most New Deal programs did not aim to support women and operated under the assumption that women would be benefited implicitly, mostly as wives, mothers, and daughters of the men who were target beneficiaries.

  • Case study: gender discrimination exercises

    • In a nationwide retrospective observational study of 227,571 Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older, it was found that 2,593 of the 67,593 patients using rosiglitazone and 5,386 of the 159,978 using pioglitazone had serious cardiovascular problems.

  • The Importance of Productivity