Also, you may not need as much
death benefit coverage later in life, so you are OK with a decreased death benefit.
Also, you may not need as much
death benefit coverage later in life, so you are OK with a decreased death benefit.
Not exact matches
So, whether you pass away immediately after purchasing
coverage or 50 years
later, your beneficiaries would receive a
death benefit.
So, whether you pass away immediately after purchasing
coverage or 50 years
later, your beneficiaries would receive a
death benefit.
You receive more guaranteed
coverage early on when your need is possibly greater and you maintain a proportional
death benefit guarantee in
later years when your focus likely changes to other priorities, including leaving a legacy.
In addition, riders can be added to each policy that allow you to adjust the
death benefit, either so that it increases over time, it decreases over time, or you're able to purchase additional
coverage later without medical questions.
In addition, with the flexible
death benefit, if you start out thinking you need a lot of
coverage, but
later decide less is more, then you can adjust your policy
death benefit down to something more in line with your budget, rather than having to cancel and try and get a new policy.
So, whether you pass away immediately after purchasing
coverage or 50 years
later, your beneficiaries would receive a
death benefit.
However,
later in life,
death benefits from
coverage may not be as important to you.
In addition, riders can be added to each policy that allow you to adjust the
death benefit, either so that it increases over time, it decreases over time, or you're able to purchase additional
coverage later without medical questions.
Of course an increasing
coverage policy will cost more than a decreasing
coverage policy which starts at the same
death benefit level, but an increasing
coverage policy may be less expensive than adding additional insurance
coverage later in life.
But, unlike a term life policy, a GUL policy offers
coverage up to much
later in life and is highly likely to pay a
death benefit.
For this reason, this type of
coverage is not always the most cost - effective in
later years, when the
death benefit is much lower.