What Everyone Should Know About Term Life Insurance
A term life insurance policy is often referred to as pure protection, since all you are buying is a death benefit. In a way you are renting protection for the term or life of the policy, say 10 years. If you die during that time, the policy will pay its death benefit.
To make a term insurance policy marketable there are a few elements that make it more like renting an less like “pure” protection.
The premiums are level from the day you buy it until the end of the term. If you actually paid the real corresponding costs your payments would rise each year. In that case, if there was any chance that you could be convinced that you no longer needed the insurance, you would drop it and the company would not make very much money.
Most term life insurance policies are guaranteed renewable before or at the end of the initial term. Insurance companies know that your needs for insurance will last for as long as you live, so they want you to keep paying for insurance far beyond that initial term period.
The benefit to you of the renewable feature is that you don’t need to prove to the insurance company that you are still “insurable” in order to keep the term insurance policy in force for a longer period than the original term. Naturally, each time you renew, the premiums will be higher for the next period of years because you are older and, therefore, more likely to die.


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