Final expense insurance is an alternative form
of end of life insurance that helps your family cover the cost of funeral and memorial arrangements.
The only way to
get end of life insurance that fully protects you from day one is to apply for a policy that has health questions.
This kind
of end of life insurance is also a popular option because of the lighter underwriting restrictions compared to other forms of life insurance.
Just like other forms
of end of life insurance, you may choose to designate how your beneficiary uses remaining funds, such as donating to a charity, or simply gifting the balance to a predetermined organization.
-- John Timson wonders if genetic testing could mean
the end of life insurance as we know it
Insure yourself for 20 - 30 years, and over that time, build your assets so that at
the end of the life insurance policy, your heirs will not need the insurance.
Many people feel they have «wasted» their life insurance premium dollars at
the end of a life insurance policy.
If you get to
the end of your life insurance contract, you may not get 100 % of your premium payments back.
Failure to pay in that grace period usually means
the end of your life insurance policy.
This return of premiums paid does not include any substandard charges (extra charges for health problems) and rider charges (extra benefits such as disability coverage), if any, which will be paid to the policy owner at
the end of the life insurance policy period, if the life insurance policy is still in force at that time.
For all those prior policies, a life insurance policy remains something that can actually be outlived, where the insured reaches
the end of life insurance mortality tables and the policy matures at the maximum age of 100 (or 96)... paying out as a taxable maturity value.
In other words, outliving the life insurance maturity date not only marks
the end of life insurance coverage itself, but a taxable event!
In theory, the new 2001 CSO tables resolve the issue of «outliving» life insurance — or at least, Jeanne Louise Calment only been one known person in recorded history to have lived past age 121, so the odds are very good age 121 will be sufficient for most to avoid
the end of life insurance mortality tables, unless we have some major medical breakthroughs sometime soon!
Fortunately, policies issued in the past 10 years or so primarily use the newest 2001 CSO mortality tables, which were extended to a maximum life span of age 121, to reduce the risk of the insured outliving
the end of life insurance mortality tables.
Survival or Maturity Benefit will be paid to the life assured at
the end of the life insurance policy term.
Recognizing this emerging problem, the update to the CSO tables in 2001 expanded the mortality tables to extend
the end of life insurance all the way out to age 121.
Take into consideration what may happen if you are alive at
the end of your life insurance policy term, and you still have a need for coverage.
Some life insurance policies allow policy holders to cash out their insurance at
the end of the life insurance term, or offer permanent life insurance that grows in value over time and can ultimately be cashed in.
This way they retain flexibility, making adjustments to investments as become necessary, and ability to access money earlier than waiting until
the end of the life insurance term.