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Term Life Insurance is temporary life insurance protection for a specific period of time. Think of it as "plain vanilla" or "pure" life insurance protection. The premium on a Term policy is low compared to other types of life insurance because it builds no cash value; you pay only for the cost of insurance (C.O.I.). The C.O.I. is the amount of money the insurance company charges to keep your life insurance policy in force, depending on your age and health at the time you apply for coverage. Under a Yearly Renewable Term policy, the C.O.I. is determined at the time you apply and increases at each policy anniversary (as you get older, it becomes more expensive to insure your life). Under a Level Term policy, the C.O.I. remains level during initial guaranteed period and then increases sharply. Term Insurance pays a specific lump sum to your designated beneficiary if you die within the period covered by the policy. The policy protects your family by providing money they can invest to replace your salary, and to cover immediate expenses incurred by your death. Term Insurance is best for young, growing families, whose financial needs are especially high but whose resources are often insufficient to cover those needs.
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A well-planned life insurance policy will not only cover all immediate cash needs, it will also replace your income so yourloved ones can maintain their standard of living. Learn more at ourLife Insurance Education Center.
Universal Life (UL), also called "Flexible Premium Adjustable Life Insurance," entered the life insurance market in the early 1980s as a more flexible version of Whole Life Insurance. Like Whole Life, UL features a savings element that grows on a tax-deferred basis. A portion of your premiums are invested by the insurance company in bonds, mortgages and money market funds. The return on the investments is credited to your policy tax-deferred. A guaranteed minimum interest rate applied to the policy (usually around 4%) means that, no matter how the investments perform, the insurance company guarantees a certain minimum return on your money. If the insurance company does well with its investments, the interest rate return on the accumulated cash value will increase. Universal Life allows you to choose from two death benefit options. Option A pays the death benefit out of the policy's cash value; the more cash value you build up means the company is on the hook for less insurance (and therefore costs less). Option B pays the face amount stated in the contract, plus any cash values you accumulated over the years (costs more). Many UL policies today offer a no-lapse guarantee: as long as you pay the minimum designated premium, the policy will stay in force to age 100 (or even to age 120). However, paying the minimum guaranteed premium is rarely sufficient to build up significant cash values.
