Life insurance you can use while you are still alive
Term, whole life and final expense, written with living benefits. If a covered critical, chronic or terminal illness is certified, you can draw on your own benefit now. What is left still protects your family.
If a covered illness is certified while you are alive, part of the benefit can be released to you.
CRI
Critical illness
A diagnosis on the policy’s list, commonly heart attack, stroke, cancer or major organ failure, can release part of the benefit as a lump sum.
Paid to you, not to a hospital
Spend it on treatment, rent or lost income
The listed conditions vary by carrier
Triggered byA covered diagnosis, certified by a physician
CHR
Chronic illness
If you can no longer perform a set number of daily activities, such as bathing, dressing or eating, or a physician certifies severe cognitive impairment.
Often paid in instalments rather than at once
Can go toward care at home, not only a facility
Certification usually has to be renewed
Triggered byCertified loss of daily activities, or cognitive impairment
TER
Terminal illness
When a physician certifies a life expectancy shorter than the limit written into the policy, often twelve or twenty-four months, most of the benefit can be released.
Living benefits are an advance on your own policy, not extra money. Whatever is paid to you while you are alive, plus any interest or fee the carrier charges, is subtracted from what your beneficiaries receive later. Which conditions qualify, how much can be drawn and whether the rider costs extra all vary by carrier, product and state, so we show you the actual rider language before you apply.
Coverage types we write
Term, whole life and final expense, sized from your real numbers rather than a rule of thumb.
TRM
Term life
The most coverage per dollar, for a fixed number of years, usually until the mortgage is paid and the children are grown.
Level premium for the whole term
10, 20 or 30 year terms
Convertible to permanent later
Best forYoung families and mortgage protection
WHL
Whole life
Permanent coverage that builds cash value. Costs more per dollar of benefit, but it never expires and never re-prices.
Coverage that cannot expire
Cash value you can borrow against
Premium locked at issue age
Best forEstate planning and lifelong needs
FEX
Final expense
A smaller permanent policy sized for a funeral and closing costs, with simplified underwriting and no medical exam.
No medical exam on most plans
Benefit paid directly to your beneficiary
Issue ages typically to 85
Best forOlder applicants and health-history concerns
Needs analysis
How much coverage is enough?
We work from your real numbers, not a rule of thumb.
Outstanding mortgage balance
Years of income your household would need replaced
Children’s education still to fund
Other debts that do not disappear
Final expenses and estate settlement
Coverage you already have through work
How a policy gets issued
1
Needs analysis
We total what your family would have to cover, mortgage, income, education and final expenses, and what you would want available if you fell ill instead.
2
Compare
We compare the policies you qualify for on their living benefits as well as their premium: which illnesses each one covers, how much it will advance, and what it adds to the cost.
3
Apply and underwrite
We complete the application with you and follow it through underwriting. Many term and final-expense policies are issued with no medical exam.
4
Keep it current
We revisit the beneficiary and the amount when your life changes, and when the time comes we help your family file the claim, or help you file your own.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Riders that let you draw on your own death benefit while you are alive, if a covered critical, chronic or terminal illness is certified by a physician. The money is paid to you and you decide what it is spent on. Whatever you take is subtracted from what your beneficiaries receive later.
Sometimes. Terminal-illness acceleration is included at no extra premium on many policies, while critical and chronic riders are often an added cost. We quote it both ways so you can see what the rider is actually worth to you.
Not always. Many term and final-expense products issue on simplified underwriting — a health questionnaire and a prescription check instead of an exam.
Most policies have a grace period of about 30 days and stay in force during it. After that the policy lapses, and putting it back can mean new health questions at your current age. Call us before the due date, not after.
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