Life insurance is considered an important cornerstone in any personal or familys financial planning. For most families and individuals, life insurance is an extremely important way to safeguard their family in case of an accidental death. Individuals that take out life insurance policies have added peace of mine that if death occurs – their family will be financially secure. There are a few different types of life insurance products on the market; the most popular are Term Life, Whole Life (sometimes called Permanent) and variations of the two.
Term Life
Term life insurance is an insurance product that covers you for a specific term (time period). You usually pay the same rate over the life of the term and you are guaranteed a benefit of a specific amount in the case of death. Most term life insurance policies are from one year to thirty years. There are two types of term life; level term and decreasing term. The vast majority of consumers choose level term. Level term has the same cost from year to year, decreasing term means that the death benefit decreases from year to year or other schedule. There is also renewable term life insurance. With renewable...