What are the advantages of Life Insurance?

The loss of your income to your Family or Business

will be devastating to them, won’t it? 

If you had the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs, would you insure the Goose or the Eggs?

The Goose as it produces the eggs – the income from your family breadwinner.

The fruits of your labor, a car, house, (Mortgage Life Insurance) clothes, food, education and medical bills, can be replaced by insurance, your savings, credit cards, etc.  Replacing your income requires life insurance.  Life Insurance benefits are generally income tax free. ^{IRC Sec. 101(a)(1) ♦ IRS.Gov}  There may be estate taxes, but there are ways to minimize them.

Many of our website visitors are here to find out where their loved ones policy is.  Your survivors depend on your income, make sure that are taken care of whether you are here on earth or in heaven.  Get coverage now, so that your family knows where your policy is.   Here’s a claim paid to the wife of one of our policy holders.  View $300k Life Insurance Payment

The Family Breadwinner’s income is considered so important by the Federal Government that Social Security has some limited death benefits for your family. We can help you build on this base to fully protect your family and estate.

Seven reasons Why do you need life insurance

Short Video – Life Insurance 101 + Plus MANY more

Financial Security Pyramid  

#Universal Life Insurance

Universal life insurance a type of whole life – cash value^[1] life insurance. Under the terms of the policy, the excess of premium payments above the current cost of insurance is credited to the cash value of the policy, which is credited each month with interest. The policy is debited each month by a cost of insurance (COI) charge as well as any other policy charges and fees drawn from the cash value, even if no premium payment is made that month. Interest credited to the account is determined by the insurer but has a contractual minimum rate (often 2%). When an earnings rate is pegged to a financial index such as a stock, bond or other interest rate index, the policy is an “Indexed Universal Life” contract. Such policies offer the advantage of guaranteed level premiums throughout the insured’s lifetime at a substantially lower premium cost than an equivalent whole life policy at first. The cost of insurance always increases, as is found on the cost index table (usually p. 3 of a contract). That not only allows for easy comparison of costs between carriers but also works well in irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs) since cash is of no consequence.  ^Wikipedia *

variable universal life insurance policy (VUL)

variable universal life insurance policy (VUL). VUL lets the cash value be directed to a number of separate accounts that operate like mutual funds and can be invested in stock or bond investments with greater risk and potential growth. Additionally, there is the recent addition of indexed universal life contracts similar to equity-indexed annuities which credit interest linked to the positive movement of an index, such as the S&P 500, Russell 2000, and the Dow Jones. Unlike VUL, the cash value of an Index UL policy generally has principal protection, less the costs of insurance and policy administrative fees. Index UL participation in the index may have a cap, margin, or other participation modifier, as well as a minimum guaranteed interest rate.  ^Wikipedia *

Uses of universal life insurance

• Final expenses, such as a funeral, burial, and unpaid medical bills
• Income replacement, to provide for surviving spouses and dependent children
• Debt coverage, to pay off personal and business debts, such as a home mortgage or business operating loan
• Estate liquidity, when an estate has an immediate need for cash to settle federal estate taxes, state inheritance taxes, or unpaid income taxes on income in respect of a decedent (IRD).
• Estate replacement, when an insured has donated assets to a charity and wants to replace the value with cash death benefits.
• Business succession & continuity, for example to fund a cross-purchase or stock redemption buy/sell agreement.
• Key person insurance, to protect a company from the economic loss incurred when a key employee or manager dies.
• Executive bonus, under IRC Sec. 162, where an employer pays the premium on a life insurance policy owned by a key person. The employer deducts the premium as an ordinary business expense, and the employee pays the income tax on the premium.
• Controlled executive bonus, just like above, but with an additional contract between an employee and employer that effectively limits the employee’s access to cash values for a period of time (golden handcuffs).
• Split dollar plans, where the death benefits, cash surrender values, and premium payments are split between an employer and employee, or between an individual and a non-natural person (e.g. trust).
• Non-qualified deferred compensation, as an informal funding vehicle where a corporation owns the policy, pays the premiums, receives the benefits, and then uses them to pay, in whole or in part, a contractual promise to pay retirement benefits to a key person, or survivor benefits to the deceased key person’s beneficiaries.
• An alternative to long-term care insurance, where new policies have accelerated benefits for Long Term Care.
• Mortgage acceleration, where an over-funded UL policy is either surrendered or borrowed against to pay off a home mortgage.
• Life insurance retirement plan, or Roth IRA alternative. High income earners who want an additional tax shelter, with potential creditor/predator protection, who have maxed out their IRA, who are not eligible for a Roth IRA, and who have already maxed out their qualified plans.
• Term life insurance alternative, for example when a policy owner wants to use interest income from a lump sum of cash to pay a term life insurance premium. An alternative is to use the lump sum to pay premiums into a UL policy on a single premium or limited premium basis, creating tax arbitrage when the costs of insurance are paid from untaxed excess interest credits, which may be crediting at a higher rate than other guaranteed, no risk asset classes (e.g. U.S. Treasury Bonds or U.S. Savings Bonds).
• Whole life insurance alternative, where there is a need for permanent death benefits, but little or no need for cash surrender values, then a current assumption UL or GUL may be an appropriate alternative, with potentially lower net premiums.
• Annuity alternative, when a policy owner has a lump sum of cash that they intend to leave to the next generation, a single premium UL policy provides similar benefits during life, but has a stepped up death benefit that is income tax-free.
• Pension maximization, where permanent death benefits are needed so an employee can elect the highest retirement income option from a defined benefit pension.
• Annuity maximization, where a large non-qualified annuity with a low cost basis is no longer needed for retirement and the policy owner wants to maximize the value for the next generation. There is potential for arbitrage when the annuity is exchanged for a single premium immediate annuity (SPIA), and the proceeds of the SPIA are used to fund a permanent death benefit using Universal Life. This arbitrage is magnified at older ages, and when a medical impairment can produce substantially higher payments from a medically underwritten SPIA.
• RMD maximization, where an IRA owner is facing required minimum distributions (RMD), but has no need for current income, and desires to leave the IRA for heirs. The IRA is used to purchase a qualified SPIA that maximizes the current income from the IRA, and this income is used to purchase a UL policy.
• Creditor/predator protection. A person who earns a high income, or who has a high net worth, and who practices a profession that suffers a high risk from predation by litigation, may benefit from using UL as a warehouse for cash, because in some states the policies enjoy protection from the claims of creditors, including judgments from frivolous lawsuits. ^{Wikipedia *  [2]}

NAAIP Agent Info

#Key Man Life Insurance – Protect your Business if you lose a Top Producing Employee

Key Person Life Insurance Wikipedia

Business Buy Sell Agreement – Nolo  Video (Life Happens.org)

Life Insurance Proceeds are Income Tax Free. ^irs.gov

Section 162 Executive Bonus

You cannot deduct the cost of life insurance coverage for you, an employee, or any person with a financial interest in your business, if you are directly or indirectly the beneficiary of the policy. ^{irs.gov Regulations  1.264-1}

Internal Revenue Code §264 (Tax Deductions)

Can a minor child #under 18, be a Life Insurance beneficiary?

No  per Jackson National Life JNL Letter

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California Uniform Gift to Minors Act Probate Code 3900-3925

To young to sign a binding contract. ^Nolo

Coverage for your GrandChildren – Leave a legacy – College Tuition

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Rates

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Ratings Agency Contact Information

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Guarantee Association
(Insurance Company Insolvency – Bankruptcy)

We are in NO WAY suggesting that you rely on this fund to take the cheapest policy with a bozo or podunk company!!!

§1067-1067.18

1067.02. …(2) (A) With respect to any one life, regardless of the number of policies or contracts:

(i) Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in life insurance death benefits, but not more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in net cash surrender and net cash withdrawal values for life insurance.

(ii) One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in the present value of annuity benefits, including net cash surrender and net cash withdrawal values.

1067.17. (a) No person,…shall …in any … way, any …statement, written or oral, which uses the existence of the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association for the purpose of sales, solicitation, or inducement to purchase any form of insurance

1071.5. Every insurer which withdraws as an insurer, or is required to withdraw as an insurer, from this State shall, prior to such withdrawal, discharge its liabilities to residents of this State. In the case of its policies insuring residents of this State it shall cause the primary liabilities under such policies to be reinsured and assumed by another admitted insurer. In the case of such policies as are subject to cancellation by the insurer, it may cancel such policies pursuant to the terms thereof in lieu of such reinsurance and assumption.

Jackson National Disclosure of Guarantee Fund

Insolvency ………………………………….. 980-989