Senior Financial Planning and Life Settlements


by Natalie Aranda - Date: 2007-03-24 - Word Count: 362 Share This!

All too often seniors find themselves with a great life insurance policy but not enough money to keep up the premiums or to enjoy their final golden years. A great way for them to get some hard, cold cash is with life insurance settlements. The senior simply sells their life insurance policy trough a life insurance settlement and ends up with less than the face value of the policy but still a good amount of cash money to help finance their final years. Life settlements are a rather new type of investment and while they can have amazing payoffs if the individual dies quickly they can also be a drain if that is not the case. Regardless, seniors considering selling their policy trough a life insurance settlement don't need to worry about when they are going to die. They simply need to worry about how much they can sell their policy for today.

Life insurance settlements sell for less the longer an individual is anticipated to live. So, any senior with no health issues that wants to sell their life insurance policy will receive less money than a senior with terminal cancer or another disease that is likely to kill them very soon. Of course, there is no guarantee which of these senior citizens will live the longest, but the odds are in favor of the healthy individual. So, the closer a senior citizen can appear to death when negotiating will result in a higher payout. Another way senior citizens can go about financial planning is to buy a policy early on that is more than they can really afford but plan on selling it through a life insurance settlement down the road to get more money. Doing this results in a higher payout as well because the face value of the policy is higher.

There are a lot of things to consider when using a life insurance settlement to finance your golden years. But, it is one option and a good one at that for older individuals who need the money to live and aren't worried about their beneficiaries after they are gone. For these folks life insurance settlements make good financial sense.


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Natalie Aranda is a freelance writer. All too often seniors find themselves with a great life insurance policy but not enough money to keep up the premiums or to enjoy their final golden years. A great way for them to get some hard, cold cash is with life insurance settlements. The senior simply sells their life insurance policy trough a life settlement and ends up with less than the face value of the policy but still a good amount of cash money to help finance their final years.

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