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n. - The recipient of a yearly stipend.

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  • The article detailed instances of investors paying terminally ill people to be named as the "annuitant," meaning their death would trigger the death benefit.
  • Among the practices at issue: investors paying terminally ill people to be named as the "annuitant" in the annuity, the person whose death triggers an often-valuable...
  • In exchange for these payments, the annuitant surrenders a specific amount of money to the insurance company.
  • SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: So the last surviving annuitant died on November 6, 1989; adjudication rendered December
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