This type of headache tends to keep participants from
accessing their cash unless they have a serious need.
Not exact matches
Though you can get a Bluebird card online, you will not be able to
access some of the free features - including free
cash reloads,
unless you go to a Walmart.
Before we talk about how to
access these funds, keep this in mind: You should not take money from those accounts
unless you are experiencing a genuine emergency and you have no other acceptable way to raise
cash (a very high interest payday loan would be worse, for example).
Since most going concerns consume
cash, their earnings streams may be of limited value
unless such flows are also combined with
access to capital markets, either credit markets or equity markets or both.
In any event, I opened the line intending to only use it for emergencies — it was basically free
access to extra
cash, with no real risk
unless I actually use the money.
For most businesses, earnings can not have a positive value
unless also combined with
access to capital markets to fund
cash shortfalls.
And trust me, at some point life will pimp slap you in the face and it's going to be painful
unless you have
access to an emergency
cash reserve to get you out of trouble.
Thus,
unless you no longer need the insurance benefits provided by the policy, taking a loan offers you the ability to maintain insurance coverage while still
accessing a significant portion of the
cash.
As with most whole life policies, you do have
access to
cash via loans (or policy surrender), though it will affect the long term performance and death benefit payout
unless repaid.
In many cases,
unless there is a «restricted or controlled executive bonus», the key executive will have immediate
access to policy
cash value and may
access that
cash value without income tax through policy loans and withdrawals.
Even policy loans will be taxed, so it becomes much more difficult to
access cash within a MEC policy
unless the owner is willing to face the tax consequences.
Thus,
unless you no longer need the insurance benefits provided by the policy, taking a loan offers you the ability to maintain insurance coverage while still
accessing a significant portion of the
cash.
Unless you have
access to a couple hundred grand in equity, I would start slow and take advantage of conventional
cash out refi loans to stretch your capital as best you can.