The purpose of life insurance
Term Life insurance is much more than just a decision of how much to buy. Depending on your financial situation, life insurance can be used for a number of reasons, such as:
- Providing for your family and children
- Paying your mortgage loan and other debts
- Transferring gained wealth or business assets
- Saving cash on a tax advantaged basis
So how much life insurance do a person need? One common benchmark is your death benefit should be about six to eight times your annual earnings, but there are a variety of factors to consider:
- Other income sources you may have.
- The size of your family or investment in assets.
- Whether your spouse works and his or her earning capacity.
- The death benefits your family will receive from Social Security.
- And any special needs such as mortgages, college education funds and estate planning.
The main purpose of life insurance is to protect the finances of one's family or friends in case of a wage-earner's death, but that's not its only use. Life insurance can be used:
- To hire childcare to replace a home-maker's contribution
- For estate protection
- For mortgage protection
- To protect a business against the loss of a key employee
- As an employment benefit
- To fund a retirement
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