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You are close. It is beneficiary. The 'bene' part, Latin for good, is the same root as in the word benediction.
If you are the insured you can change the beneficiary at any time as long as it is not an irrivocable beneficiary and there is insurable interest
Write to them (with the policy number for which you think you are a beneficiary) and ask.
If there is no living beneficiary then the beneficiary becomes the estate of the insured. If there is a will the administrator of executor will have the benefits to pay for last expenses and then pay out as the State Law mandates. If there is no will the magistrate or probate court will assign an administrator or executor to handle these items.
Does it matter who signs the check to pay for a policy, either the insured or the beneficiary for tax purposes.
Ask the insured if still alive, or check the policy. You can also call the insurance company and ask customer service if you are the beneficiary. You would need the policy number.
'DB' is short for 'Date of Birth.'
An insurance company will typically wish sufficient identifiers to know who to pay out the policy to. So they will need the beneficiary's name, their relationship to you, and a lot of times their date of birth and social security number. In the event that the beneficiary is a non-profit or church, the name and tax ID number will need to be provided. In the event of the beneficiary being a trust, there are identifiers with that as well.
No, that person would be charged with both fraud and forgery and be sent to jail. The only legal way someone other that the beneficiary can sign for a payment is if the benificiary is declared incompetant and a court assigns the signing authority to that person or the beneficiary voluntarily signs legal documentation giving someone else that right
It means that if you want to change the beneficiary, the beneficiary themselves must sign off on it.
The proceeds of the life insurance policy legally and contractually belong to the named beneficiary of the policy, in this case the caretaker.
You need to have it corrected if it is possible, if it is not possible, you may have to go to court in order to receive benefits if you are the beneficiary. It is important to always make sure legal documents have correct names and spelling.