Across the United States, billions of dollars in life insurance benefits are sitting in limbo because families never realize a policy exists or do not know how to claim it. Those unpaid benefits can ...

Imagine paying life insurance premiums faithfully for decades, believing your loved ones will be taken care of after you’re gone, only for the payout to never reach them. It might sound unthinkable, ...

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The Social Security Administration maintains the only federal database that insurers are required to periodically check for deaths. Issues with the database, however, have resulted in millions of ...