Why Homeowners Need Life Insurance PDF Print E-mail
Written by Benjamin H Heinzeroth   
Thursday, 13 May 2010 18:29
Life Insurance is required to look after the love ones you leave behind. Can you imagine what your loved ones will do without your financial source of income. Life insurance can provide for your family or loved ones, only if you are planning now - the younger you are, the more cost-effective it is to invest in coverage from the insurance providers.
by BenjaminHHeinzeroth


Life Insurance is required to look after the love ones you leave behind. Can you imagine what your loved ones will do without your financial source of income. Life insurance can provide for your family or loved ones, only if you are planning now - the younger you are, the more cost-effective it is to invest in coverage from the insurance providers.



The fundamental intent of life insurance is to provide tax-free income to your family after you pass away. The money your beneficiaries will receive, the "death benefit", is an important financial resource: It can help pay off the debt, maintain the household, plus insure that your loved ones are not burdened with debt after bereavement. After all, you want them to just remember the good times, and your nature, not what they are left with after you go - which sometimes could very well be a horror of nothing and destitute. The proceeds from a life insurance policy may possibly well mean that they will not likely have to dispose of assets to pay off outstanding debts or taxes; ordinarily tax-free on life insurance benefits.





Permanent Life Insurance ... Lifetime Coverage





Universal Life



Permanent insurance that provides coverage in circumstance of death, as well as a cash value contributing factor:

Universal life insurance could help fulfill the needs of people who desire long-term death benefit protection, that includes a flexible premium plan.





Variable Life



Standard premium payments accompanied by a wide selection of investment choices:

Variable life insurance offers a choice of death benefit choices and a potential to accumulate high-growth, non-guaranteed, tax-deferred cash values; that fluctuates based on the indexed stock performance of underlying investment models that you choose.





Whole Life



Death benefit no matter how long you live, as long as premiums are paid:

A whole life policy offers life-long, permanent insurance protection that is ideal for individual, business or estate-planning needs. The income tax-free death benefit can give loved ones the financial security to continue their standard of living; if the insured should die prematurely. For business owners, the insurance provided by a whole life policy can ensure their company will have the funding to carry on normal business operations after the death of the key person.





Survivorship Life



This life insurance policy type is commonly used in estate planning strategy:

Survivorship (second-to-die) life insurance insures two people and pays the death benefit when both have died. It is used mainly for wealth preservation.





Term ... for a Limited Time



Buyers can choose protection for 1 to 40 years

If your insurance need is considered to be projected for a certain number of years, for example, until a debt is paid off, or if cost is a prime consideration - Term may be suitable for you.

Term life insurance can save you money or enable a person to buy a larger death benefit than may otherwise have been manageable. Although, Term premiums may eventually exceed premiums on other forms of life insurance.





Non-Med Term



Specially designed to help make the application process be fast and convenient. You can expect to save time by skipping the medical exam and still get a great premium rate! You provide basic personal information and answer the medical questions on the application - that's it! No medical tests and no lengthy delays. You'll know within a few days if you've been approved - typically used for mortgage or debt-protection cases.







How much life insurance will you need to purchase?



The general guideline is to buy life insurance equal to five to seven times your annual gross income.



Insurance carriers have become extremely competitive in the last few years, advertising interest rate comparisons, along with designing specialty riders with long-term care or nursing home waivers, to entice life insurance buyers to invest into long-term captivating life inurance policies; for high growth cash surrender liquidity.A majority of these new high-growth life insurance products turned out to be additional retirement tools for most people in their later years, by taking loans against them for unexpected life events or cash payouts. After the stock market crashed in December of 2008, so did most of the economy and let's face it life insurance can be the first to lapse in a families budget, when trying to put food on the table. Understand that, life insurance is something we all are going to use, we all are going to pass away someday, let's just simply hope you are insured if it happens tomorrow!

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.