Life Insurance
Everyone needs life insurance. When you sign up for life insurance, you receive financial protection that helps to prevents financial loss; a loss that comes from unexpected or early death. An insurance policy promises to pay to your beneficiary—spouse or other—a specific amount of money when you die, in exchange for premiums that are paid on a regular basis.
The benefits of having life insurance are knowing that your family and spouse will be able to continue on and not be threatened by financial hardships, and if you have permanent life insurance—whole or universal life—you will be able to also build an investment in your life insurance policy; one that will grow tax free.
Research has shown that you should have enough insurance coverage that will replace the income you would have earned, if you had lived to earn that income.
Everyone needs life insurance because the death benefit that comes from the life insurance will help to replace lost income, should you die an early death. This income may help to replace the income that the family will need to keep going. In addition, life insurance can also help with a child’s education, pay off expenses and help build a savings program that will sustain the family for a period of time.
Life insurance needs are different for each family. What one family needs for insurance coverage, would not be appropriate or enough for another. There are several different types of life insurance: term insurance, whole life insurance, universal life and whole life and variable life.
Term insurance is when you purchase coverage at a particular price for a certain period. Should you die during that time, your beneficiary will receive the value of the policy.
Whole life is similar to term; however, you purchase the policy to cover you whole life, not just a set period in as in term insurance. Throughout the life of the policy, your premiums remain steady and the company is allowed to invest part of your premiums.
Universal life insurance in when you decide how much you want to invest above the minimum premium. With this insurance, the company makes the decision where to choose the investment. Often such investments are with mortgages and bonds.
With variable life insurance there are more options of investment; stocks of which is one. Variable life insurance is like universal life insurance in that the returns on investments can offset the cost of premiums or add into the account. And, depending on the policy, your beneficiaries will receive the face value of the policy or the face value plus part or all of the cash account.

