Disabling Illness or Accident
Who will pay you when you can no longer work because of an accident or illness? How much will you receive, and how long will it continue? What will happen to your company, or your retirement benefits?
When your income is cut off by disability, your expenses generally increase and your investments can deplete rapidly. Without your ability to restore your investments, how will your dependents survive economically?
What are your options for replacing your income if you become disabled?
- Borrow?
- Who will lend to you?
- How would you repay the debt?
- Even if you could borrow, the interest accelerates your debt!
- Who will lend to you?
- Family?
- Are they able and willing to help?
- How long before they would be financially stressed?
- What would their assistance do to family relationships?
- Are they able and willing to help?
- Friends?
- Same issues as family assistance.
- Same issues as family assistance.
- Charity?
- Which ones?
- How much could they assist?
- How long could they assist?
- Which ones?
- Liquidate Assets and/or Accounts?
- Which ones?
- What are market conditions?
- What is the tax impact?
- How will you replace those assets if you or your family needs them?
- Which ones?
- Insure your income prior to a disability?
- Improves the possibility of borrowing, if necessary
- Minimizes the need for financial assistance from family, friends, or charity
- May allow you to keep assets/accounts that would otherwise need to be liquidated
- Preserves retirement funds for you and financial security for dependents
- Premiums are impacted by age, gender, health, occupation, avocations, waiting period, duration of benefit, amount of benefit, and riders such as automatic inflation increases or guaranteed purchase options.
Ultimately, it is your current good health that allows this preferred solution. To minimize the profound impact that this major life transition could have on your retirement goals and lifestyle, complete the secure, interactive financial planning tool. Let's get started today!