Life Insurance Policies - What Makes Them Different
Monday, July 24th, 2006Life insurance is insurance that will help provide for your family or aid in the transition period following your death. A life insurance policy is considered to be an essential part of your financial planning for the future.
There are many options with how life insurance is used, but there are five main types of life insurance.
Term life insurance- this is pretty straight forward. It is insurance on an individual life for a specific period of time that pays a specific dollar amount at the time of death. This is the most inexpensive type of insurance and is usually used to cover a specific happening in the event of death perhaps provide for a child education in the event of death prior to that child completing college.Whole life insurance- provides permanent protection for your dependents while accumulating cash value. The life insurance company takes a portion of your premium and provides a life insurance benefit and then takes the remainder and invests it in other accounts hopefully get (more...)
