Assuming you are talking about life insurance policies, the loan value of a policy is not the same
thing as the death benefit.
That is not exactly the same
thing as a death benefit even though it is a payment made as a result of a death.
Not exact matches
Another
thing to consider is that a mortgage life insurance policy is often written
as a decreasing term policy, so the
death benefit decreases over time, (just
as your mortgage payoff amount decreases
as you pay your monthly mortgage payments), but the premium remains the same over the life of the policy.
The great
thing about life insurance is that the
death benefit is paid out income tax free and not necessarily tax free altogether
as life insurance proceeds are typically included into the gross estate of the decedent (the deceased) and are thus subject to estate taxes (sometimes called «
death taxes»).
Accident
benefits: No matter who caused the accident, accident
benefits will typically cover the cost of medical treatment, income replacement,
death and funeral expenses
as well
as other
things.
You may claim such
things as the replacement value of your vehicle, attendant care
benefits, housekeeping
benefits, home maintenance
benefits, income replacement
benefits,
death benefits, funeral
benefits, medical
benefits and rehabilitative
benefits.
Here are some
things you can do to make sure your life insurance
death benefit proceeds can get to your beneficiaries
as quickly
as possible:
Death benefits can cover such
things as income replacement, debts, and burial expenses.
Another
thing to consider is that a mortgage life insurance policy is often written
as a decreasing term policy, so the
death benefit decreases over time, (just
as your mortgage payoff amount decreases
as you pay your monthly mortgage payments), but the premium remains the same over the life of the policy.
The cash value grows at a guaranteed rate annually and can be borrowed against to pay for certain
things (such
as an emergency hospital bill), but is not added to the
death benefit.
If something happens to you, the
death benefit provides funds they can use to pay such
things as the mortgage, buy food and clothing, and get an education.
The only
thing that must be understood is that any use of the cash value, whether
as a loan to you, or an «Automatic Premium Loan» to the insurer (if you forgot to or stopped making premium payments), disrupts the
death benefit payable to the beneficiary.
This policy offers flexible premium payments and
death benefit options, including the ability to use cash value
as a future financial cushion for
things like retirement income and / or paying off debts.
An insurance company must prove that the insured broke the rules of the policy in order to avoid paying a
death benefit, and that's not an easy
thing to do, especially when it comes to something
as hard to quantify
as a person's state of mind at the time of
death.
There are policies that grow a cash value,» which is not the same
thing as the amount that the life insurance policy pays out to your beneficiaries (the «face value» or «
death benefit» of the policy).
So we wanted to clear up that a guaranteed issue policy is the same
thing as a graded
death benefit policy.
If you find out you are terminally ill and only have 6 weeks to live and there were no such
thing as graded
death benefits, then the first
thing you would do is buy a life insurance policy to make sure your beneficiary immediately got $ 25,000.
The last
thing you want to learn about 5 years from now (after paying for a policy for 5 years) is that the $ 25,000 burial life insurance policy that you purchased has some type of «depreciating
death benefit» that goes in effect
as you age.
If there is one
thing that you should take away from my experience, is to think of the
death benefit from the term insurance
as a final, affectionate embrace you will ever give your family.