Over 50s Life Insurance for Seniors Estate Planning and Final Expense

You see many ads about life insurance for senior citizens and some of them promise guaranteed issue life insurance.

Guaranteed life insurance may be a good solution for people with health problems that will not allow them to qualify for other health insurance. However, senior life insurance policies have been designed to accept most people, so make sure you have exhausted other options first. For one things, the premiums will be more expensive for every $1,000 of coverage, and the death benefit will not be immediate. Other senior life insurance policies called simplified issue will have an immediate death benefit and be less expensive!

Simplified Issue Life Insurance vs Guaranteed Issue Life

We see a lot of ads now for guaranteed life insurance for seniors and simplified issue whole life insurance policies. These are usually marketed to senior citizens or people without perfect health, and sometimes they are sold as burial insurance policies.

The difference between these policies is this. Simplified issue life insurance requires some health questions to be answered to qualify, but most people who are not terminally ill or in a nursing home will get a policy. The death benefit is immediate as soon as the policy is issued. On the other hand, guaranteed issue life insurance does not require health questions, but uses a waiting period to qualify people.

Before you buy life insurance, be sure and compare guaranteed or simplified life insurance so you get the right plan for you or your loved one.

Burial Insurance For Seniors

Burial Insurance For Seniors

If you care for an older person, or if you are a senior citizen, then you have probably noticed ads for products called burial insurance or final expense insurance. These are actually small face value whole life insurance policies that are designed to be issued without a lot of health underwriting or credit checks.

Burial Life Insurance policies come in two types: Simplified Issue and Guaranteed Issue. Simplified issue policies provide an immediate death benefit upon issue, and do as some health questions. However they do not have strict health requirements, so most seniors can get one. If you can qualify for simplified issue that is a more affordable and better choice because it provides an immediate death benefit!

Guaranteed Issue Final Expense Policies do not ask any health questions. They use a waiting period instead of health underwriting. If the insured person survives the waiting period, usually 2 or 3 years, than the whole benefit is paid out to beneficiaries upon death. If the insured person passes away before that period is up, then the policy usually stipulates that premiums plus some set interest rate are paid to the beneficiary. If a person has serious health problems or is in a nursing home, this is the way to go. However, these guaranteed issue policies do tend to cost more, per $1,000 of coverage, than a simplified issue policy would cost.