These dividends provide many advantages,
including additional cash value or increased death benefit.
Not exact matches
You can
include a paid - up additions rider in your policy, which allows you to make purchases of paid - up
additional insurance with no proof of insurability, increasing the
cash value and death benefit proportionately.
Dividends can be used in several ways,
including purchasing
additional life insurance coverage, adding to the
cash value component of a permanent life insurance policy, or receiving directly in
cash.
The benefits may
include full replacement
value, with no obligation to replace policies (
cash - out options), by - law coverage, greater allowances for
additional living expenses and coverage for higher limits of jewelry, fine arts, antiques or items that can not be replaced due to their inherent nature.
It also
includes an
additional feature known as
cash -
value which can be borrowed against.
Also, unless «current»
cash value is different than the general definition of
cash value, then I don't think your death benefit
includes all your
cash value, just the
additional cash value due to «dividends».
Platinum boasts multiple new features at no
additional cost,
including a return of premium rider, guaranteeing the policy's
cash surrender
value will never be less than the premium payment; accelerated benefit riders for chronic illness, critical illness, and terminal illness; and a charitable giving rider, a unique feature that provides an
additional death benefit of 1 percent of the policy face amount to the applicant's charity of choice.
These
include taking it in
cash (by receiving a check from the insurance company), using it to purchase
additional amounts of insurance coverage on your policy, and / or by adding the amount of the dividend to the policy's
cash value component.
A universal life contract provides access to
cash value accumulation like that of a whole life policy; however,
cash value within a universal life policy
includes a guaranteed minimum interest rate plus an
additional interest payment if and when the life insurance carrier experiences higher returns on its own investments.
These reasons for a change in the face amount can
include additional paid up insurance bought with dividends, a face reduction for the purpose of saving money on insurance costs, and having an increasing death benefit based on
cash value.
You can
include a paid - up additions rider in your policy, which allows you to make purchases of paid - up
additional insurance with no proof of insurability, increasing the
cash value and death benefit proportionately.
The cumulative total amount of reserve (i.e., the guaranteed
cash value),
including the nonguaranteed
cash value of the
additional paid - up life insurance purchased each year, starting at the beginning of year two, with the yearly declared paid dividend.
The cumulative amount of total
cash value for the years shown
including the nonguaranteed
cash value of
additional paid - up insurance purchased through the dividends.