1. Explain how term life insurance works.
- Also known as “pure” life insurance, term life insurance pays a death benefit to the policyholder if he/she dies within the specified time frame, which can be anywhere from 1 to 30 years; however if the policyholder doesn’t die, the premiums he/she paid for won’t be paid back to that holder. Term life insurance on the bright side has relatively low premiums for holders to pay and so it is an easy way to insure against death.
2. Explain how whole life insurance works.
- Whole life insurance works by not having a defined term that the policyholder has to die in, instead, it has the holder pay continuous premiums, which in turn generates a cash value that the holder can withdraw or borrow from throughout his/her lifetime.
3. Explain how variable life insurance works.
- Generally being one of the most expensive life insurance policies, variable life insurance plans insure their holder’s dependants a certain amount of the premiums that the holder paid over his/her lifetime in addition to whatever amount of money the plan ensures. The portion of the premiums that I mentioned earlier are actually able to moved to a different account within the insurance company that is made up of its stocks, bond funds, equity funds, etc. Thus, this portion of your money can potentially grow very rapidly.
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of variable life insurance?
- Some of the advantages of variable life insurance are that your family is ensured until whenever it is that you die and that they also have access to the other account that has the money you put into your life insurance’s premiums, which can become really huge since that money is being invested.
- However, variable life is really expensive and the premium money that you get to move is at the mercy of the economy’s health.
5. Compare term life and whole life insurance. What are their advantages and
disadvantages?
- Term life and whole life insurance are different in the sense that the earlier only insures your death for a certain timespan, while the later doesn’t have a specified timespan.
- Some advantages of term life insurance are that if you die during the set time frame then your family is insured and that if you don’t then you didn’t spend as much money as the other person who got whole life insurance. However, because term life is only for a certain timeframe, if you don’t die during that frame then all the money you spent essentially went to waste.
- An advantage of whole life insurance is that it insures your family until the time that you die, but if you it takes a long time for you to die then the amount of money you pay on premiums eventually would offset the money your family gets from the insurance company. Also, whole life insurance tends to be pricy.
6. If you die, the insurance company has to pay your beneficiaries a lot of money.
How do life insurance companies make money?
- Insurance companies make their money by making sure they give insurance plans to people that they expect to live past their plan’s insured time frame and if they do, then all the money that person spent on the plan isn’t reimbursed and comes back to the company as profit.
7. Which life insurance is right for you and your family? Which one will you choose
and why? For the purpose of this class, use either term life or whole life.
- Whole life insurance would be the right insurance plan for me and my family, because it will guarantee that my family will be insured against my death until whenever I die, thus making them and I feel secure about the future.
8. Deduct the monthly expense from your budget. Update your budget with the cost
of life insurance. Your teacher has the fees for you.
Spending:
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Income:
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Gas: $72.71
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401K: $518.38
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Food: $293.46
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Roth IRA: $505.74
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Healthcare: $248.25
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Utility Bill: $136.52
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Property Tax: $162
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Homeowner’s Insurance: $66.67
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Internet: $30
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Netflix Subscription: $8.33
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Whole Life Insurance: $250
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Total Spending: $1,267.94
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Total Income: $1,024.12
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Total: $243.82(I owe this much money, and so this is debt)
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9. Calculate the amount of money you will spend after twenty years.
- I will spend $304,305.60 in 20 years.
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