HOW TO GET LIFE INSURANCE FOR FREE

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Life insurance is necessary for those with loved ones and family that rely on their income to survive. Life insurance is the solution to protect your family and ensure they’re taken care of financially. The downside, of course, to having anything is paying for it, and life insurance premiums are no different. Although affordable life insurance options are out there, especially when you’re young and/or in good health, those premiums need to be paid every month on an ongoing basis to keep that valuable coverage in place. If you stop paying your premiums, your coverage will go away.

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So there’s no way around paying your premiums, right?

 

Well, yes, that’s right. You have to pay your premiums, no way around that. But there is a strategy you can employ to essentially get life insurance for free using the Return of Premium.

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RETURN OF PREMIUM POLICIES

 

Pay higher premiums now, but get all your money back later. These policies are becoming less commonplace in the market, but some are still to be found.

 

A policy with a Return of Premium option allows the owner to get all of the premiums they’ve paid into the policy back after a certain period. The Return of Premium feature may come in the form of a rider, as a natural result of overfunded policy design on a permanent policy, or built into the product itself.

 

Generally, a product with Return of Premium capability will cost more per month. Still, you would be paying that increased rate every month with the understanding that you would get all of that increased premium back in your pocket sometime later. Once you exercise the Return of Premium feature, the coverage ends, and you’d be fully refunded without coverage going forward.

 

For example, if you decided to go with a regular 20-Year $500,000 Term policy, you might pay $50 per month in premium. You’d pay that premium every month for 20 years, and when that term expired, you’d be out a total of $12,000 in premiums paid over 20 years. That money would be spent and gone, and your coverage would be over.

 

Alternately, suppose you chose to instead be covered with a Guaranteed Universal Life policy with a Return of Premium option. In that case, you may pay $100/mo in premium for the same $500,000 in coverage. At the end of 20 years, you will have paid $24,000 into the policy, double the premium of the Term product – however, since this is a Return of a Premium product, you could then exercise your option to get the entire $24,000 back. You get all your premiums back, coverage ends there, and you essentially just received free life insurance coverage for the past 20 years!

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