Insurance Continuing Education - Life Insurance | The Communication Blog

Monday, December 26, 2011

Insurance Continuing Education - Life Insurance

By Ed Hulse


You will be assured that your family will be financially secured when you die if you get a life insurance policy. Services such as providing for living, housing, and catering for collage expenses for your family can be accessible when you acquire this king of policy. You have to consider various aspects of life insurance prior to settling for any coverage.

In term life insurance, one only buys the policy for a certain period of time. If you die when the policy is still active, the payout upon death will be the face value of the cover. You will be charged higher premiums by the company if you decide to purchase another premium after the end of the term. This policy is more convenient to healthy and young adults with small kids.

Whole life form of coverage is like term policy except it remains in effect for a lifetime of the purchaser. The premiums for this type of policy are generally higher than for the term life policy. All the terms and conditions of the policy are set at policy issue time and cannot be altered afterwards.

This type of cover plan stays for your entire existence and may be cashed out any time or it could be left as it is till you die. Peradventure you cash out before death, you will be given a cash value, though not really the face value for the policy. The Cash value is the sum, plus interest, of premiums that has been paid.

Universal form of coverage is a policy that guarantees a set benefit, usually at retirement, no matter how badly the stock market performed. During the time you are making your premium payments, the money is invested in stock, bonds, and money-market accounts.

A viable cover is a policy that you can invest your money. Your family will be guaranteed a minimum death benefit if you did not do well in your investments. The US Security and Exchange Commission oversee this form of investment.

Medical and funeral costs can be covered if a child dies using the Child coverage. A majority of firms allow the child continue with the insurance to adulthood. A lot of this builds cash value though there could be a few term policies which could be bought for the child.

There are some insurance riders that can be attached to a life insurance policy. Examples are a rider that waives your term premium in case you are disabled for more than 6 months, a rider that pay extra coverage if you were to die in an accident, and a rider that allows collection of all or part of the death benefit if you become terminally ill.




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