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Nov 17, 2006 -- How to switch to term life insurance

If you’re thinking about changing up your life insurance policy, Clark strongly suggests that you shop around for term life policies. There are 20-year, 30-year, and 40-year level term policies, plus a few more. Level term means you buy insurance for a set number of years depending on your age and who is in your family. For example, if you have young kids and you want to provide financial security for them until they are adults, you would want a 20-year term policy. If you’re 35 and it’s just you and your spouse, you probably want to provide for the remainder of your spouse's life, if you die. So, you’d probably want a 30-year term. The prices keep getting cheaper because life spans are getting longer. As a result, you’re in a position to buy insurance at a much lower rate. Just make sure that when you’re buying this insurance, you get enough to take care of all your loved ones. Usually, a good bet is 10 times your current income. If you make $100,000 a year, for example, you need a $1 million policy. You can shop online now and compare quotes from several companies. One site Clark likes a lot is insure.com. Just be sure you go with a company that gets either an A+ or an A++ rating from AM Best.

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What others are saying

  • answer to your question
    My solution to your problem is to cancel. A lot of people make this mistake when they are trying to decide what to do with a problem. Think of it this way--if you woke up today without this policy, would you go out and buy this policy and pay $98 a month for it? NOOOOO.

    As with anything in life--cars, boats, houses, jobs, investments, AND insurance policies--you should run this analysis. The money you have already paid into it is gone. It's sunk cost.

    You need to go shopping for a policy that works for you from here on out, and that's most likely a term-life insurance policy. You need to do this YESTERDAY! Good luck!
  • Declining life insrance
    Have USBA life. Insurnace declines as you get older. Have had it for 20 years, now it has declined to benefit value is 20K. Have over 25K invested in the program and still paying $98 a month. My investment is greater and getting greater monthly. If cancel, will loose all. USBA prey's on military & retired Military. Like to stop program but if cancel will loose all. Any solution?
  • insure.com company; or they big and safe enough
    Because insure.com only has 250k insured, I wonder if they will be around for the long haul. You know, will they be in business in 20 years should I obtain term-life with them? The wife went through things with this company right up to and including the phy- exm, but we then back away after considering so few people are insured with them.

    Is insure.com an insurance company you may have an invested interest in of some kind like Dave Ramsey has with Sanders insurance Co. of which he talks about?

    My thanks to your staff Clark, and to you.
  • Insure.com
    While the insure.com website is a great tool for comparing multiple insurance companies, be advised, I had an insure.com "licensed insurance agent" call my home within 1 minute of clicking submit on their website. NO KIDDING!!!
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