Thursday, October 2, 2008

Six Things You Need To Know About Ltci And Survivorship Benefit

By Terry Stanfield

The survivorship benefit is very important if you are looking into getting a long term care insurance quote. This is one of many benefits you should consider and there are many reasons why. Here are six things to think about with the survivorship benefit that might impact you if you get a long term care insurance policy.

1. You must be married to get a survivorship benefit. This must be a valid marriage. You cannot be living with a person but they must actually be your spouse. In addition, some insurance companies do not recognize homosexual couples and they also might not recognize common law marriages.

2. The long term care insurance cost will be higher if you should choose the survivorship benefit. The more benefits you add to your package the more money you will pay into the policy. However, remember this is like a savings account and it will still benefit both you and your spouse.

3. A survivorship benefit usually has a stipulation to it before you can actually use the benefit. This stipulation is in years and will usually require approximately 10 years of paying on the policy without having a single claim to the company. This means that you or your spouse will not have been hospitalized for any reason or had any other claim to the company throughout the entire duration of a set time frame.

4. The survivorship benefit on a couple's long term care insurance policy means that if one of the people in the marriage dies, the survivor of the relationship no longer has to pay the premiums for the rest of their life. This is designed to help a person remain on the policy because most likely their income has been cut in half because of the death.

5. When survivorship is on the long term car insurance quote and a person in the marriage dies, the other person receives full benefits for life also. This means that they will receive the entirety of what they were paying for before the person died.

6. The long term care insurance policy will not change when a spouse dies. The benefits being paid for before the time of death will remain in effect and active for the rest of the living person's life.

When you get a long term care insurance quote and you are married it is important to consider the survivorship benefit on your policy. Don't get a policy without it or you could be in trouble if your spouse dies.

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