Things like loans, withdrawals, or dividend payments used to
buy additional paid up insurance can affect the actual death benefit of permanent forms of life insurance.
These reasons for a change in the face amount can
include additional paid up insurance bought with dividends, a face reduction for the purpose of saving money on insurance costs, and having an increasing death benefit based on cash value.
Additional Paid Up Insurance (API) Rider: allows you to add additional premium payments to your policy to purchase «paid - up» life insurance, increasing your death benefit and cash value.
The additional paid up insurance (API) rider can also be used to increase the policy's death benefit and cash value.
Dividends can be taken in cash, used to reduce the premium due, or used to purchase
additional paid up insurance.
This is because the dividends may be used to purchase
additional paid up insurance.
The additional paid up insurance (API) rider can also be used to increase the policy's death benefit and cash value.
Buy More Insurance — Can be used to buy
additional paid up insurance.
Whole life insurance does give the policy owner the option of using dividend payments to purchase
additional paid up insurance, so hypothetically a whole life policy can have an increasing death benefit over time if this dividend option is chosen.
Dividends can either be used to buy
additional paid up insurance, so the death benefit rises over the life of the contract, be used to build cash value faster in the policy, or can be taken as cash by the owner.
Purchase
additional paid up insurance, increasing the death benefit and the amount of future dividend payments.
Additional Paid Up Insurance (API) Rider: allows you to add additional premium payments to your policy to purchase «paid - up» life insurance, increasing your death benefit and cash value.
The dividends can be used to purchase
additional paid up insurance, pay premiums (not necessary with an SPL), or be taken as a payment.
Some people grow their policies by using dividend payments to purchase
additional paid up insurance.