Beginners guide to life insurance – Part 6


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Life insurance makes the inevitable easier (on everyone else).
In the United States, life insurance started with arrangements made through churches, starting with Presbyterians and Episcopalians, to help widows and children of deceased ministers. The practice of pooling funds to help the people listed in the “Survived by” section of the obits quickly spread out [...]

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Tips on how to pay life insurance debt

Life insurance debt arises out of life insurance withdrawal/loan provisions. Therefore, life insurance debt is a function of permanent life insurance (also known as cash-value life insurance). The concept of life insurance debt can be viewed in two ways. Life insurance debt can be involuntarily created or created by voluntary withdrawals.
How you pay life insurance [...]

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Beginners guide to life insurance – Part 7

With all the day to day costs and expenses it is easy to overlook buying life insurance. Maybe we don’t want to think about our own mortality, or at least think its far enough in the future that we have time but it’s something everyone should be thinking about today. There are plenty [...]

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Is life insurance needed? – Part 1

In assessing whether life insurance is needed, let’s start by looking at what life insurance is and how it works. Life insurance in essence provides a safeguard for your dependants. It can be used to pay off your debts and/or support your dependants by replacing some or all of your income in the event that [...]

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Types of life insurance you can buy – Part 6

Life insurance is designed to create financial protection for a persons’ family should they pass away. This protection can come in the form of paying off the deceased persons’ debts or even as a replacement for their income for a certain length of time. Life insurance can even be used as an investment, although this [...]

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