Term Life Insurance (Temporary)
Term Life insurance is a great tool to use to protect your family from loss of income and to cover debts. There are even products that offer "living benefits" in the event of a critical, chronic, or terminal illness. Term Life Insurance offers the biggest bang for the buck as far as the amount of death benefit provided for the monthly premium. The main thing to keep in mind with Term Life Insurance is that this is considered "temporary" coverage. What does "temporary" mean? With Term Life Insurance there is a coverage term - typically 10 years, 20 years, or 30 years. At the end of the term, the policy terminates. Term Life Insurance is the perfect tool to take care of:
- Providing income to your wife, husband or children in the event of your death
- Covering mortgage payments and debts
Penn State University Performed a study in 1993 of over 20,000 Term Life Insurance policies and determined that only about 1% of those policies actually paid a death claim to the beneficiary. For the majority of the cases the insured simply outlived the term length of the policy - this is a reason why Term Life Insurance is not a suitable choice to cover Funerals, Final Expense, and Wealth Transfer. In these situations, permanent coverage such as Whole Life Insurance is more suitable.