In addition to providing a guaranteed death benefit for life, typically
with guaranteed level premiums for life, whole life policies develop significant guaranteed cash values over time which the policyholder can access.
It provides affordable protection,
guaranteed level premium during the initial term and can help in providing income due to a terminal condition or confinement to a nursing home (not available in all states).
With the simple whole life insurance, the insured will
maintain guaranteed level premiums for the lifetime of the plan, while at the same time building up a stable cash value.
They are built purely
as guaranteed level premium and death benefit (if you're interested in cash accumulation, this policy isn't for you).
If he simply wanted to purchase John Hancock's traditional level premium term product without adding the Vitality feature, he would
pay guaranteed level premiums of $ 1,123 per year for 20 years.
They offer
guaranteed level premiums which means that your premiums will neither increase nor decrease and has a return of premium feature which will return 100 % of eligible premiums after 15, 20, or 30 - years.
In general, if shorter - term policies provide more flexibility when it comes to the costs incurred at the renewal of the policy, the advantage of longer - term policies is that they offer a better price and may
guarantee level premiums over a given period of time.
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By guarantee we mean
guaranteed level premiums before your rates will likely go up, so you have 10 years before your premiums will go up and usually it's a significant increase.
The only products that I know of that are lapse supported (i.e. the insurance company wants you to lapse at some point) are ROP term products and
guaranteed level premium permanent products life products (guaranteed whole life, no lapse UL).
Level term life insurance is the most popular type of term life insurance in the U.S. Level term
provides guaranteed level premiums and coverage for 10, 15, 20 or 30 years.
The only way to
maintain guaranteed level premiums and a level death benefits for life is to purchase whole life or a universal life policy with a guaranteed no lapse rider.
The return premium term life insurance policies feature
fully guaranteed level premiums for the first 10, 15, 20 or 30 years and in some cases the life insurance can continue to age 95.
Return of Premium (ROP) term life insurance combines the advantages of traditional term life insurance such as affordable,
guaranteed level premium periods with a return of premium feature.
Cincinnati Life's guaranteed whole life is accompanied with a wide range of additional guarantees such
as guaranteed level premiums, guaranteed cash value accumulation and guaranteed insurability (even if your classifications change).
It's also important to keep in mind that some longer term policies (such as the 30 - year and 35 - year options)
only guarantee level premiums for the first 20 years.