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    <ecd:PvpTableTextBlock contextRef="c0" id="ixv-1567">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;UTG&#x2019;s pay versus performance table is summarized as follows:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table style="font-size: 10pt; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"&gt; &lt;tr style="vertical-align: top; height: 39.15pt;"&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0px 5.4pt; width: 84.35pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid black; vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&#160;Year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0px 5.4pt; width: 85.1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid black; vertical-align: bottom;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Summary Compensation Table Total for Principal Executive Officer (&#x201c;PEO&#x201d;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; ($) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0px 5.4pt; width: 83pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid black; 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&lt;span&gt;345,512&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0; width: 82.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;345,512&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0; width: 66.95pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;219.87&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0; width: 52.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;17,166,898&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr style="vertical-align: top;"&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0; width: 84.35pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt;"&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="padding: 0; width: 85.1pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt;"&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;465,550&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; 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padding-right: 5.4pt;"&gt;&#160; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 18.0pt;"&gt;
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     &lt;span style="font-size: 10.0pt; min-width: 18.0pt; display: inline-block; text-align: left;"&gt;(1)&lt;/span&gt;
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     &lt;span&gt;Calculation of Total Shareholder Return (&#x201c;TSR&#x201d;) assumes $100 was invested in the Company for the period starting January 1, 2023, through the end of the listed year. Historical stock performance is not necessarily indicative of future stock performance. As UTG is a smaller reporting company, the Company is not required to disclose peer group TSR.&lt;/span&gt;
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  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Jesse T. Correll is the Company&#x2019;s PEO and Douglas P. Ditto, Daniel T. Roberts (starting in 2025), and Theodore C. Miller are the Company&#x2019;s NEOs, Non-PEOs.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</ecd:PvpTableTextBlock>
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