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The Insurance Companies have been wrongly accused when it comes down

to the sale of life insurance policies. Dying is something that’s

going to happen to everyone eventually so it’s best that it’s dealt

with maturely.

There are three main types of life insurance that you’ll want to look

into when you get ready to buy. These are Whole Life, Term Life and

Endowment.

A Whole life insurance policy will cover you for your “whole life”

as long as you maintain the premium payments. As you pay your premiums

part of the money goes toward purchasing insurance for you, while

the rest is placed into an interest bearing account.You can borrow

against your savings account as needed, but you must pay it back just

like any other loan.

Whole life policies mature at age 100 years. After this happens then

the insurance policy will be paid out at face value and cancelled.

Face value is the amount that the policy would have paid in the event

of the death of the insured person. An example would be – a $100,000.00

policy has a “face value” of $100,000.00.

An Endowment can be used to set up a policy for a certain amount of

time for a specific purpose. Endowment policies can be used for many

different reasons such as supplemental retirement nest eggs,

children’s tuition for college and more.

Endowment insurance policies costs more in the short term in order

to pay the policy off in the specified period of time. Example, a 20

year endowment would be paid in full after 20 years.

Term life insurance is the cheapest insurance policy that you

can purchase. These policies can be bought for a designated “Term”

such as a “10 Year Term” or “20 Year Term”. Term policies are similar

to Endowment policies, but, unlike Endowment and Whole Life, there is

no cash value built up with term insurance policies.

A Term policy would be good for an individual or family that needs

extra insurance coverage for a specific period of time.

A good example would be the family man or woman who was the primary

income source or “breadwinner” needing higher insurance during their

working years when they would normally have bigger obligations such

as house payments, car payments, kids college tuition savings and more.

Before buying any life insurance, you need to go through all of your

bills. After you get them all together you need to place them in different

piles. One for regular monthly household bills and a second for payments

that are financed such as credit cards, auto, home loan, ect. These are

things that will be paid off at some point.

You need to purchase enough insurance where all of these items can be

paid in full in the event that tragedy strikes your family.

The second pile will have only your normal monthly obligations. These

will include food, clothing, insurance (life, health, dental, auto,

homeowners, ect.) utilities, phone and more.

It can be a startling experience for some people when they actually

sit down with pen and paper and look at the amount of money it takes

to survive each month. These is considered “normal” expenses too.

There are many families that don’t have these some of these “luxeries”,

but everything should be included if it’s a household expense.

Lastly, you’ll need to allow a certain amount of funds for you to

have time to get back on your feet after your loss. We’re human beings

and overwhelming loss must be dealt with. You may not be ready to

get right back to work and you shouldn’t “have to” either.

Take the time to walk around each room of the house with a pen and

paper and write down anything else that you can think of that might

need to be considered. No matter how insignifigant it may seem you don’t

want to remember something after it’s too late.

You need to take the time right away to speak to an insurance agent

and get yourself the peace of mind that only comes with knowing that

you and your family are taken care of in the event of a tragedy.