Not exact matches
If you already own life insurance, you can add the charitable organization
as another beneficiary and specify how you want the
death benefit distributed.
The legislation has since changed,
as explained below, but many of the Tribunal's comments (especially on the nature of a scheme administrator's power to decide to whom to
distribute death benefits) are particularly relevant to the current legal position.
It is important to keep in mind that if the policy owner dies at any time during the term period, simply buying just the traditional term coverage and investing the difference will always provide the greatest return on capital, because in this case the policy owner's estate would not only receive the
death benefit but can
distribute the invested cash
as well.
In addition, loans from insurers secured by policy values are not income and earnings credited to an owner's policy values (known
as «inside buildup») by the insurance company are not currently taxed (and may escape taxation altogether if such earnings are not
distributed other than
as part of the
death benefits paid upon the
death of the insured).
You can list several on your policy, and either
distribute the
death benefit among them
as you see fit or order them like pageant contestants, with one «winner» and then a first runner up, second runner up, etc., so that if the first beneficiary is unable to receive the
death benefit, there's someone else on the list.
Any money that is not spent on nursing care
benefits will be
distributed to your heirs
as an income tax - free
death benefit under Internal Revenue Code Section 101 (a)(1).