TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021
When you are young, you have to work hard in order to build a life for yourself, and this means putting in place a strong financial cushion to meet your family’s needs. However, you can’t ignore the fact that your death might put a dent in the best-laid plans, and it’s best to have a backup plan in place. You can get this solution by investing in a quality life insurance policy.
Still, while you are young, life insurance might be the furthest thing from your mind. But yet, there’s no time like the present to make this lifelong investment. In fact, life insurance carriers recommend that applicants get policies in place while they’re young, rather than waiting until later life. After all, age is one of the primary factors that will influence your risk of death in the insurer’s eyes. 
Below, we’ve listed some of the most essential reasons to get a quality life insurance policy while you are young, rather than waiting.
Better Policy Rates
You buy life insurance because you want to provide your family with a financial settlement upon your death. Your survivors will be able to use the money offered by the death benefit to cover costs like final expenses, debts, ongoing living costs or other needs that you would have met had you remained alive.
To maintain your policy, you will of course have to pay for it. However, like with all insurance plans, life insurers will base premiums on your risk of filing a claim with them. Since life insurance is going to pay upon your death, then the insurer will naturally view those with a higher risk of dying as those who will pose the highest cost risk to them. Those who do, therefore, will likely have to pay more for coverage.
It’s simple to understand that the younger you are, the lower your risk of death. Therefore, by enrolling in life insurance early, the more likely you are to receive a favorable base premium upfront. Plus, though your rates might increase as time passes (and you age), you will still likely receive a lower premium overall compared to someone of the same age who bought their policy later in life.
More Policy Options
As you age, your insurability decreases in the eyes of your insurer. Once again, someone in their twenties has a lower risk of dying than someone in their fifties or sixties.
Therefore, as time passes, you might find your eligibility for certain life insurance policies will decrease. Not only might base premiums become unaffordable, but also certain insurers might deem you completely ineligible for certain policies. For example, if you are past 50 when you apply for whole life insurance, then you are attempting to enroll in a policy that will remain in place for the rest of your life.
However, the remainder of your life is much shorter than that of someone thirty years younger. Therefore, the insurer is going to have a higher risk of paying out a lot of money in a short amount of time. As a result, they might deem you ineligible for a full whole life policy, and limit you only to a term policy or one with a lower death benefit. However, even if you apply for coverage later in life, you can still qualify for quality benefits with the help of your agent.
Greater Savings & Earnings Potential
You might mistakenly think that life insurance is only designed to offer financial assistance to those who are left behind after your death. However, you might be wrong.
Whole life policies, which last from the time you enroll until the time you die (as long as you pay for them), will often offer a cash value benefit alongside the death benefit. The cash value benefits is an investment account that is supported by a portion of your premium. Over the years, the account will accumulate value based on stock performance, and in time you can draw on it as a source of income.
Since cash value increases over time, the longer you have your policy, the more money it can accumulate over the years. The more time you have to let the value mature, the more money you might be able to get both while you are still alive, and this can be a vital source of retirement income.
Our life insurance qualifications might decrease as we get older. Therefore, the smart investor will get life insurance while they are young and can reap what might be a larger slate of benefits.
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