Why we need Life Insurance?
Life Insurance
provides a financial coverage to specified beneficiaries upon the death of the
insured individual. It involves a contract providing for payment of an assured
sum of money to the person insured.
First and foremost
point is that life insurance isn't for you, it’s for your family. Some people believe
that buying life insurance is like planning for their death, the fact is that
life insurance is not about death, it's about realizing a peace of mind
prepared to face any financial crisis that would hit the family in case of your
untimely demise. It provides you with a sense of security that no other form of
investment provides. Life Insurance is considered one of the most popular
savings/investment schemes that provides sound returns as well as protection
and also serves as a Tax saving mechanism.
A Life Insurance
Policy becomes a priority with the need to safeguard your family - it is
considered one of the most popular savings/investment schemes. Life Insurance
plays a vital role in one’s Financial Planning Process & securing the
financial future of the survivors. Not only does Life Insurance offer you the
ability to plan for the uncertain future adversities affecting you and your
family, it also offers you good investment returns and tax benefits.
While taking a Life
Insurance policy through any of the BimaDeals
partners, do keep in mind:
1) Identification
of your needs: Before you think of buying Life Insurance
what is really important is to identify your needs. E.g. a married individual
needs a Life Insurance cover as early as possible as compared to an individual
who is single and doesn’t have any dependents. Do read the recommendations
below to understand the Life Insurance requirements at your specific stage.
2) Cover
required: After you identify your needs you need to
ascertain the amount of Sum Assured required. Human Life Value (it’s an
estimate of the financial dependency of the survivors on the insured) needs to
be evaluated which considers the individual's annual income and expenses along
with the inflation rate. This helps in determining the individual’s requirement
for Sum Assured.
3) Choose the
Policy: After you have decided about your Sum Assured
choose the Policy suiting your needs. There are two kinds of Insurance plans -
Term plans and Savings-based plans. A term plan insures the individual for a
high sum at a low Life Insurance premium acting as a pure risk cover and
doesn’t give any returns on maturity, whereas Savings-based life insurance
plans give returns on maturity apart from covering you for Life Cover.