When opening new accounts or estate planning, an essential consideration is who will be listed as the primary beneficiary and the contingent beneficiary to ensure that your assets are distributed ...

Key Takeaways Bank account beneficiaries can be designated as primary or contingent beneficiaries, the latter of which inherits an account if the primary beneficiary dies. When selecting and ...

Whether you get life insurance through work or a policy you purchased on your own, the beneficiaries work the same. The primary beneficiary is the first in line to receive your death benefit.

According to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), if a 401(k) plan participant is married, their spouse is automatically considered the primary beneficiary. This means the spouse ...

Objective: To examine changes in the quality of primary care experienced and reported by Medicare beneficiaries from 1998 to 2000. Design: Longitudinal observational study. Setting: Thirteen ...

[11] First, states were selected; then HMOs within states; then beneficiaries from qualifying HMOs and from traditional Medicare. Because the study's primary goal was to evaluate Medicare HMOs in ...