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As a rule of thumb, figure you need about $100,000 in insurance for every $500 of monthly income required. Let’s say your household needs $3,000 a month to cover all your expenses. Your worst-case scenario is that the people who survive you have no employment or other income, so they’ll need the full $3,000. You’d divide this by $500 and get 6, so your insurance policy should be in the amount of 6 x $100,000, or $600,000. The following table shows you the simple calculation. You can plug in your own numbers in the blanks at the right.
How does this work? You want your insurance payment to be a sum of money that your beneficiaries can invest to generate enough income to cover your expenses without dipping into the principal. If your monthly expenses are $3,000, that’s $36,000 a year. Assuming a conservative interest rate of 6 percent, you would need $600,000 to produce that $36,000 a year. That principal would go on throwing off income forever because your survivors are using only the interest.
Okay, that’s the worst case—but now let’s say that if something happened to you, you know you or your spouse would keep working anyway. All you need from the insurance proceeds, before taxes, is $1,500 a month. You have three choices. You can purchase the minimum amount of insurance needed to cover that shortage of $1,500 a month, which is $300,000 worth of insurance: $1,500 divided by 500 is 3; 3 times $100,000 is $300,000. Or you can purchase $600,000 worth of insurance to cover yourself completely, in case at some later date you won’t be able to work after all. Or you can purchase any amount in between that would make you feel comfortable.
Let’s say you and your spouse decided to be completely secure and bought the $600,000. Your spouse dies, but you still want to work; for now, all you need is $1,500 a month from the death benefit to cover all your expenses. What do you do with the $600,000? You will want to invest enough safely for the principal to generate that $1,500 a month in interest every year, without touching the principal, and invest the rest for growth in case the day comes when you can’t work any more or you lose your job. Let’s figure again. How much needs to be invested for income, to cover the $1,500 a month you need, and how much for growth?

Most people think, “Oh, all I’d need is enough to get my family by for just a little while. As a result, they usually have the $50,000 or so worth of insurance that’s part of their benefits package at work and feel that is more than enough. But since an unexpected tragedy affects people in different ways, you never know for sure what might happen after you are gone That’s why this is a decision, taking into account every tragic possibility, that must be discussed with the people who would be affected by such an event. All the questions must be asked. Do they feel comfortable knowing that they have enough money to get by for a year, or two, or eight? Many experts will tell you to purchase six to eight times your annual salary, but experts are not the ones who have to live your loved ones’ lives. Maybe in your situation you would rather know that everyone will be okay no matter what, even if no one is able ever to work again. Maybe you want your children to be provided for for ten years, rather than just eight. There is no magic formula. Each of us has our own financial what-if comfort level. The final decision is a balance of what makes everyone concerned feel secure—and how much you can realistically afford to pay for that security.

When I first started researching long-term-care insurance about ten years ago, there were only about 4 companies selling it. Today, there are about 130, and that number fluctuates at any given time by 30 or 40, depending on which companies have decided to give it a try and which have decided to check out of the LTC business.
This is a little bit of good news and could be a lot of bad news.
As long-term-care insurance becomes more and more popular, people will be shopping more competitively to buy it, which, as the LTC business becomes more and more profitable, will keep insurance companies on their toes. That’s good news. The bad news is that this industry is in such flux that companies are trying it, and some are deciding it’s not for them. Not profitable enough after a few years? They just close up LTC shop. This has already happened—with Aetna, AIG, and Washington Square, huge companies that tried LTC and decided against it after a while. Another case in point: One of the first times Consumer Reports rated LTC insurance carriers, their number one—rated company was out of the business by the time the magazine hit the stands.
When you buy your LTC insurance, you don’t plan on using it for many years from then, if ever. It is imperative that the company you buy it from will still be there if ever you need it. Let’s say you bought your policy at age fifty-four, when you were perfectly healthy. Fine. Then let’s say the company you bought it from decides it doesn’t want to be in the LTC business anymore when you turn sixty and have been diagnosed with some terrible disease.
What does this mean for you? Do you get your money back? No, of course not, they’ll tell you. Why should you get your money back? We were covering you for all those years, and if you had had to go into a nursing home, well, we would have been there for you. But coverage for you now with another company may be impossible, given your new medical condition. Even if you were still perfectly healthy, it would be much more expensive than it was when you first signed on. So you must buy your policy from a company with a firm commitment to the LTC arena.

It’s also true that the younger you are, the likelier you are to be in good health. These policies are not available to those with serious health problems, or else the cost is prohibitive.
Let’s do the math. The average age of entry into a nursing home is eighty-four. Let’s say you bought a generous policy at age fifty-four, one that had a lifetime benefit period, a $100-a- day benefit amount, 5 percent compounded inflation, zero-day elimination period (these terms are explained below), and two years of home health care at $50 a day. For this policy you agree to pay $954 a year, assuming no rate increases. You pay it for the next thirty years, and then you in fact do have to go into a nursing home. You would have paid $28,620 in premiums. The average cost of a nursing home thirty years from now is projected to be $13,000 a month. So you will have paid less for all those years of insurance than what three months in a nursing home will cost you if you happen to need it.
If you’re that sixty-five-year-old who waited to buy it, it would cost you $2,580 a year for the exact same policy, or a total cost of $49,020, if you went into the nursing home nine-

In my opinion there is only one kind of life insurance that makes sense for the vast majority of us, and that is term life insurance. When you sign up for term insurance, you’re buying ei just-in-case policy for a finite length of time that you need protection. These policies are not very expensive, because the insurance company knows you have relatively little chance of dying while the policy is in force. Most likely they won’t have to pay a death benefit, and the premium is accordingly relatively small.
With a whole life or universal policy, on the other hand, the insurance company knows it will almost certainly have to pay the face amount or the death benefit. You’re expected to die with it. So they price it accordingly. It’s true that whole life and universal policies have cash values, so if you decide not to keep it, or if you suddenly need money while you’re alive, one source would be the cash value of these policies. But commissions on life insurance policies are some of the most lucrative commission’s in any business—and you’re paying them. If your goal in buying life insurance is to put money aside, there are far, far better ways to save it without having to pay these kinds of commissions.. With low-cost term insurance, even though you do not accumulate a cash value, you’re paying low commissions on the protection you need, for as long as you signed up for.

A twenty-year policy felt right for Linda, but you’ll have to decide the term that’s right for you. Term insurance is available in all different term lengths, from yearly renewable term, where every year your premium will go up, to level term for longer terms—five, seven, ten, fifteen, and so on—where the premium is fixed for the term. The longest-level term I know of is a twenty-year level, which is not available in all states. (See “Long-Term-Care Insurance,” opposite, for information about how to choose an insurance company and agencies to call for the best rates.) Insurance companies are always coming up with new concepts, so scan the papers for offers that sound promising.
Linda thought we had finished discussing insurance, but
asked her one more thing. What if she ever had to go into a nursing home? She was so concerned about leaving money to her children. Did she know how fast nursing home costs would eat away at her assets?

With the continuous development of the internet technology now you can now be able to find, ask and avail of the online services. Services which can help our live a better living.
One of the services that I had avail personally was the car insurance. There are so many car insurance services that you can easily find online if you try to search for the specific keyword.
But among the site that has the service here is the one that can give you the car insurance if you are from California. Yes, here is site which offer the car insurance services to the people who had their car and wanted to be insured on the California auto insurance.
Giving their car protection as they drive along the highway. Without any worries that any damage on your car can cause you financial worries. That even if you do not have money when the accident happen, if you are insured you can be assured that there is a company which can help you. And the one which provide you the financial assistance for your car repair.As you visit their site you can find all the information the ins toll free phone numbers that you needed to know about the car insurance and it’s coverages. The Californians buy coverags online can enter their Zip code number on the site to check for the availability of their services. You can easily do the comparison with the rates to be sure that you are availing for the right services from the right company with the reasonable price that you can afford.
Have the comparison on their site without the cost for their service of comparison. Plus it doesn’t mean that when you’ve done the comparison you had the obligation to have the service. It is your freedom to choose their company or not just try the comparison. Visit their site and start insuring your vehicle.