You spend countless hours researching the best life insurance companies, narrowing down your select few and the right policy, only to have all your careful planning go up in smoke due to a failure to properly designate your beneficiary or failing to update your policy.The following article will address the various concerns with naming
different life insurance beneficiaries that you need to be aware of to avoid sabotaging your legacy.
You spend countless hours researching the best life insurance companies, narrowing down your select few and the right policy, only to have all your careful planning go up in smoke due to a failure to properly designate your beneficiary or failing to update your policy.The following article will address the various concerns with naming
different life insurance beneficiaries that you need to be aware of to avoid sabotaging your legacy.
Not exact matches
Selecting
beneficiaries for retirement benefits is
different from choosing
beneficiaries for other assets such as
life insurance.
If your
life insurance policy states three
different people as the owner, the insured, and the
beneficiary, then the death benefit could count as a taxable gift.
Similar to a term
life insurance policy in that your
beneficiaries receive a cash payout in the event of your death, whole
life insurance policies are
different in that they continue for your «whole
life».
Knowing how
life insurance works is important because your
different policy options will help determine how long it'll be in effect, how much you'll pay for it, and how your
beneficiaries will be taken care of in the event of your death.
Term
life is a fully
different type of policy from that of universal
life (indexed or not), or whole
life insurance, but the basic idea is the same; the customer pays regular premiums to the insurer and should he die while the policy is in force, the insurer is obligated to pay his
beneficiary or
beneficiaries a pre-determined lump - sum amount.
Most annuity payments cease upon the death of the annuitant (this is what makes them
different from regular
life insurance policies, which generally make a payment to a
beneficiary upon the death of the insured).
If your will and policy name
different beneficiaries, the
life insurance money will go to whoever is listed on the policy.
There have been cases where a
beneficiary has been deemed to not have an insurable interest and the
life insurance proceeds went to a
different party than the
beneficiary listed upon the death of the insured.
Either way,
life insurance is not a complicated concept, it just has a lot of
different questions such as what type of
life insurance do you need, how much coverage do you want, and who will be your
beneficiaries.
Life insurance is
different because it compensates the policyholder's
beneficiaries for an event that is certain to occur at some point.
Understanding the fundamentals of
life insurance, including what the major types of
life insurance are, and how they each work in
different ways to accomplish the same goal of providing protection to the insured person's
beneficiaries.
There are three
different types of
beneficiaries in
life insurance policies who are eligible to receive death benefits.
Finally,
different taxes may apply to the benefits paid by your
life insurance policy if the death benefit is paid to the
beneficiary in installments, instead of as a lump sum.
Life insurance death benefits are generally tax - free — except when three
different people play the roles of policy owner, the insured and the
beneficiary.