Term life insurance or term guarantee is a life insurance that provides coverage at a fixed rate for a limited period of time, a relevant term. After the period ends, coverage at the previous premium rate is no longer guaranteed and the client must leave coverage or potentially gain further coverage with different payments or conditions. If the insured life dies for a period of time, the death benefit will be paid to the recipient. Term insurance is usually the most inexpensive way to buy a large death benefit on the sum insured per dollar premium basis over a given period of time.
Term life insurance can be contrasted with permanent life insurance such as all life, universal life, and a universal life that ensures coverage for a fixed premium for the lifetime of a protected individual unless such policy is allowed to drag on. Term insurance is generally not used for housing planning needs or charitable strategies but is used for the need for a pure income replacement for an individual. The term insurance function in the same way as most other types of insurance that meets the claim against what is insured if the premium is up to date and the contract has not expired and does not provide premium dollar refunds if no claims are filed.. For example, car insurance will satisfy the claim against the insured in the event of an accident and the policy of the homeowner will fulfill the claim against the house if it is damaged or destroyed, for example, by fire. Whether this incident will occur or is uncertain. If the policyholder does not continue the coverage because he has sold an insured car or house, the insurance company will not refund the entire full premium.
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Usage
Since term life insurance is a pure death benefit, its primary use is to provide financial responsibility for the insured or the beneficiary. Such responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, consumer debt, dependent care, university education for dependents, funeral expenses, and mortgages. Term life insurance can be selected for permanent life insurance because term insurance is usually much cheaper (depending on the time period), even if the applicant is a daily smoker. For example, an individual may choose to obtain a policy whose term of office ends at the age of his pension under the premise that, at the time of an individual retirement, he will raise sufficient funds in pension savings to provide financial security for the claim.
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Yearly renewal period
The easiest form of life insurance is for a period of one year. The death benefit will be paid by the insurance company if the insured dies for a period of one year, while no allowance is paid if the insured dies one day after the last day of the one year period. The premium payment is then based on the expected probability of the insured mortality within that year.
Since the likelihood of dying next year is low for anyone who will be accepted by insurance companies for coverage, the purchase of only one year of coverage is rare.
One of the main challenges for an update experienced with some of these policies requires evidence of insurability. For example, the insured can get terminal illness in the term, but not actually die until after the end. Due to terminal illness, the buyer is unlikely to be insured after the expiration of the initial term, and will not be able to update the policy or buy a new one.
Some policies offer a feature called reinsurability guarantee that allows the insured to update without evidence of insurability.
The term insurance version that is is generally purchased is annual renewable term (ART). In this form, premiums are payable for one year of coverage, but the policy is guaranteed to be continued annually for a specified period of time. This period varies from 10 to 30 years, or sometimes until the age of 95. Due to the age of the insured, the premium increases with each renewal period, eventually becoming financially unfeasible because the tariff for the policy will eventually exceed the cost of the permanent policy. In this form, the premium is slightly higher than the one-year coverage, but the likelihood of paid benefits is much higher.
Assumption of Basic Price for Life Insurance Term Life Renewable Annual
Actuarially, there are three basic price assumptions that go into each type of life insurance:
- Mortality - How many people will die in a given year by using a large sample size - EG, Mortality Table CSO 1980 or Table of Mortality of CSO 2001 more recently compiled by FDC. Most life insurance companies use their own mortality experience based on their own internal statistics. The Mortality Table of CSO reflects the total population figures in the US and does not reflect how life insurance companies filter their applicants for good health during the policy underwriting phase of the policy issuance process. The corporation's mortality is likely to be always more profitable than the CSO table as a result. In rare cases, some companies have recently increased the cost of policy mortality in the existing business segment because it is much lower than the anticipated investment yield,
- Assumption of Net Investment Result - EG Average industry income is currently 5.5% Annual Yield by life insurance company. In the early 1980s, the assumption of interest/profit of more than 10% was maintained over the life of the policy.
- Internal Administration Fee - Generally this is a merit number that includes, in particular, the cost of the policy (sales commission to agents and sales intermediaries), and the cost of a public home office. See Actuarial Standards Board - 2016 Life Insurance Product Price Pricing
This price assumption is universal among the various types of individual life insurance policies. It is important to understand this component when considering life insurance because there is no cash accumulation component attached to this type of policy. Buyers of this type of insurance usually look for the component of maximum benefit mortality with the lowest possible premium. See Barometer 2017-LIMRA Insurance Study and LifeHappens.org
In the competitive term life insurance market, the premium range, for similar policies with the same duration, is quite small. All the above-mentioned variations of the term life policy are derived from this basic component.
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More commonly than annual renewable insurance is guaranteed premium term life insurance, where premiums are guaranteed to be the same for a certain period of time. The most common terms are 10, 15, 20, and 30 years.
In this form, the premiums paid annually remain the same throughout the contract period. This fee is based on the sum added cost of the annual renewable rate each year, with the time value of money adjustments made by the insurer. Thus, the longer the period of time at which premiums remain high, the higher the premium amount. This relationship exists because the older, more expensive to be insured is average, by the insurance company, into the amount of premium calculated at the time the policy is issued.
Most long-term programs include renewal options, and allow insured persons to update policies with maximum warranty levels if the coverage period needs to be extended. Updates may or may not be guaranteed, and the insured person should review the contract to determine whether evidence of insurability is required to update the policy. Typically, this clause is called only if the insured's health deteriorates significantly over that time period, and poor health will prevent the individual from being able to provide evidence of insurability.
Most life-policy options include the option to change lifetime policies into Universal Life or Whole Life policies. This option can be useful for people who have a lifetime policy with favored grade rank and then are diagnosed with conditions that would make it difficult to qualify for the new term policy. The new policy is issued at the class level of the original term policy. The right to convert this may not extend to the end of the Term Life policy. Rights may extend a specified number of years or ages, as may be converted to the age of seventy.
Life Insurance Premium Returns
A term life insurance coverage that provides a partial refund of premiums paid during the life of the policy if the insured person lives longer than the term life insurance policy.
For example, if a person has a 10-year premium life insurance plan and a ten-year term has expired, the premium paid by the owner will be refunded, minus any costs and expenses incurred by the life insurance company. Typically, a premium refund policy returns most of the premium paid if the insured person goes beyond the policy period.
Premiums for premium return plans are usually much higher than regular rate life insurance policies, since insurance companies need to make money using premiums as interest-free loans, rather than as non-refundable premiums.
Payout likelihood and cost difference
Both term and permanent insurance use the same mortality table to calculate insurance costs, and provide death-free income tax benefits. However, the cost of premiums for term insurance is much lower than that of permanent insurance.
The reason the costs are so much lower is that the time period program can end up without pay, while the permanent program should always pay eventually. To overcome this, some permanent programs have built a vehicle of accumulated cash to force the insured to "insure themselves", making the program many times more expensive.
Other permanent life insurance policies have no cash value. In this case, the policy owner may have the option to pay an additional premium in the early years of the policy to create a deferred tax cash value. If the insured person dies and the policy has a cash value, the cash value is often paid tax-free, in addition to the nominal amount of the policy.
Simple Insurance Issues
Simplified minimized underwriting process. The amount of coverage is lower than those that are traditionally guaranteed. Simplified policy issues usually do not require a medical exam and have fewer application questions to answer. Many of these policies may be approved within a few days.
Guaranteed Issue Warranty
A guaranteed life insurance policy is approved. The amount of coverage will be lower than the traditional policy. Premiums will be much higher. Since there are no medical questions and everyone is approved, this policy will have a waiting period before benefits are paid out. If the insured dies during the initial waiting period, only the premium plus interest will be refunded. After the waiting period has been met, a full death benefit will be paid to the recipient.
See also
- Family income benefit insurance
- Life Insurance
- Permanent life insurance
- The Decline Theory of Responsibility
- Universal life insurance
- Universal life insurance variable
- Full life insurance
- Internal Revenue Code section 79
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia