If you want the maximum
amount of death benefit now, the second option should be selected.
Not exact matches
In the next 20 years or so, you would pay in the neighborhood
of $ 175,000 or more in premiums to keep that $ 75,000
death benefit to age 95 I assume when you say «the yearly premiums are getting expensive» you mean the same
amount you've been paying all these years is
now a much larger percentage
of your monthly / annual income.
Your total net
death benefit will
now equal the larger
of the total specified
amount less any indebtedness, the policy value multiplied by the appropriate attained age Guideline Premium Test corridor factor less any indebtedness, and $ 5,000.
Of course, the bond interest might not quite be enough to cover the traditional LTC premiums right
now (and therefore deplete principal slightly), but it will be more than enough once rates rise, which again seems like a reasonable «bet» for someone who still has a 10 - 20 + year time horizon for long - term care and retirement needs (and over that time horizon, the client could have generated an
amount equal to the hybrid life / LTC
death benefit just with normal growth!).
Practically speaking this means that the
amount of the
death benefit earmarked to the deceased child will
now be broken up evenly amongst any children
of the deceased child, aka the grandchildren
of the insured who were offspring
of the deceased beneficiary.
If two children were to pass away before the
death benefit was paid, the remaining two will receive a proportional
amount, so each will
now receive 50 %
of the total
benefit in this scenario.
Now the insurance company pays the
death benefit of Rs. 5 Crore, this entire
amount is tax free in the hands
of your loved ones!
The idea here is that you get the coverage
amount you need
now with the option
of converting all or a portion
of that
death benefit into a permanent cash value policy.
Now comes Protective saying that because
of that law they will no longer allow those who purchased policies prior to 2009 to make any change in their policy, such as lower the
death benefit amount.
So anyway, there is
now a company that will underwrite traditional life insurance that has a
death benefit from the time it goes in force, has a range
of products to choose from so your budget can be retained without having to take a ridiculously small policy, and it's available in
amounts up to $ 1 million.