A beneficiary is someone listed on a life insurance policy to get the proceeds if the insured individual were to pass away. The proceeds from life insurance typically come as a lump sum payment known as a death benefit. The beneficiary you choose on your life insurance is very, very important. Even if you put Read more >>
Life insurance forms the backbone of most middle-class financial plans. Because without this form of protection, the financial futures of many families would lie in ruins if something were to happen to the breadwinner. What is life insurance? Life insurance is one of the oldest forms of insurance protection in the world. In a nutshell, Read more >>
If you own a permanent life insurance policy, then you will have some amount of cash value inside your policy that you can access whenever you want for any reason. But do you know how much cash value you currently have in your policy? How can you find that out? The answer to this question Read more >>
If you live in the United States today, odds are you will need long term care at some point. The cost of total long term care is rising each year. Long term care insurance (LTCI) is a type of insurance designed to help you pay for long term care needs. Nursing homes, living facility, medical Read more >>
If your bills are piling up on you and you need to get your hands on some cash immediately, then cashing in your life insurance policy may be an option. This would generally only work with some form of cash value policy, such as a whole life or universal life policy or even a variable Read more >>
An inforce illustration projects the current costs of your life insurance policy from lapsing. Every year more seniors realize the benefit of exploring a life settlement to get an immediate benefit from an unneeded life insurance policy. As settlements become a more popular option, consumers are realizing that they can investigate and enter into life Read more >>
While many consumers consider life insurance to be one of the staples of their personal finances, many of them tend to overlook the risk of becoming unable to work for an extended period of time. This is unfortunate, because statistics show that it is several times more likely that someone will become disabled for a Read more >>
Saving for retirement is a necessity. but beyond the idea of “putting money away for later,” or just creating a budget worksheet, how much do we really know about the actual costs incurred by American seniors? It’s a misconception that spending decreases after retirement; in fact, a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows Read more >>
A life settlement is the sale of an inforce life insurance policy for a market value return. Policyholders receive more than the cash surrender value of their policy but less than the death benefit at maturity. The market value depends on the age and health condition of the insured, but often is in the range Read more >>
All over New York you have seen TV commercials, newspaper advertisements, and the Internet are abuzz with life settlement promotions. All this publicity and advertising has come about for good reason. Life insurance settlements has grown into a billion-dollar industry. Its popularity stems from the benefits it supplies to seniors and others who no longer Read more >>
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