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1. Apply What You've Learned - Life Insurance Planning Scenario: You are 30 years old with a gross annual income of $55,000. You are married with 2-year-old twin children. Your spouse is 30 years of age. You estimate that your final expenses for funeral, burial, and other expenses will be $15,000. You currently owe $185,000 on a mortgage, $25,000 on a car loan, and $20,000 in credit card debt. You would like to replace your income for 30 years, and believe that your insurance proceeds can be invested to earn a 5% return. You would also like a minimum of $60,000 for each child be placed in a college fund. You do not anticipate a need to fund a readjustment period for your spouse. You currently have a $80,000 whole life insurance policy. Two procedures may be used to estimate your life insurance requirements. The more accurate method is the It is considered the better method because it: offers a simplified way of evaluating your potential level of need. considers all of the factors that might affect your potential level of need. Which of the following are potential financial resources that could be used to offset your family's costs and expenses after your death? Check aff that apply. Existing financial assets, including your savings, investment, and retirement accounts. Government benefits, including Social Security survivors' benefits. The sale of physical assets, such as a house or a vehicle. Health insurance benefits Now, think more about the needs-based approach to estimating your life insurance requirements. To perform this analysis, make the following assumptions and computations: When calculating your replacement income, you should base your computation on of your current annual income. This is because: the costs of E. and any education expenses incurred by your spouse and dependents. Your readjustment-perio: needs are currently expected to be Your current short term debt-repayment needs are , and reflect the costs of your Therefore, your replacement-income requirement should be based on a base annual income of per year. These expected future amounts should be at a rate of for (Hint: The appropriate annuity interest factor is 15.3725.) Another important element in the needs-based method involves your spouse's and family's readjustment-period needs. This item is intended to cover the costs of . _ and any education expenses incurred by your spouse and dependents. Your readjustment-period needs are currently expected to be Your current short term debt-repayment needs are, and reflect the costs of your, Current Social Security benefits are detailed in the following table. Remember, that survivor bend jer than age 18 , to a surviving spouse caring for surviving children younger than age 16 , and to a survivi Current Soclal Security benefits are detailed in the following table. Remember, that survivor benefits are paid to surviving children younger than age 18 , to a surviving spouse caring for surviving children younger than age 16 , and to a surviving spouse aged 60 or older. The table of interest factors that can be used to compute the present value of an annuity is: Your twin's survivor benefits are currently expected to total per year for years. When they are discounted at 5% for this amount of time, using the 16-year interest annuity factor of 10.8378, they are expected to total computation of your spouse's survivor benefits, on the other hand, are more complex. Your spouse should expect to receive survivor benefits until your children are years of age. Given your present annual income, spousal benefits are estimated to be per year. (Hint: Don't forget that there is a maximum annual family benefit that may reduce the amount of your spouse's annual benefit.) When discounted at 5%, using the 14-year interest annuity factor of 9.3936, these spousal benefits should total According to the rules of the Social Security Administration, your spouse will experience a benefit blackout for the date on which the twins turn 18 until the spouse's 60t birthday. Your spouse will realize a Social Security blackout period that lasts for until age 60 Now use the data from your calculations above and that from your personal circumstances, to estimate the amount of life insurance your family requires using the needs-based approach. If your answer is zero, enter " 0 ". Which of the following statements regarding life insurance policies are true? Check all that apply. Death due to suicide is frequently excluded from coverage in life insurance agreements-but usually only for the first two years of a policy. Once you calculate your insurance needs, you don't ever have to do it again. A beneficiary does not have to pay taxes on the death benefit of a life insurance policy. It is illegal for a policyholder to borrow against the accumulated cash value of their life insurance policy. 1. Apply What You've Learned - Life Insurance Planning Scenario: You are 30 years old with a gross annual income of $55,000. You are married with 2-year-old twin children. Your spouse is 30 years of age. You estimate that your final expenses for funeral, burial, and other expenses will be $15,000. You currently owe $185,000 on a mortgage, $25,000 on a car loan, and $20,000 in credit card debt. You would like to replace your income for 30 years, and believe that your insurance proceeds can be invested to earn a 5% return. You would also like a minimum of $60,000 for each child be placed in a college fund. You do not anticipate a need to fund a readjustment period for your spouse. You currently have a $80,000 whole life insurance policy. Two procedures may be used to estimate your life insurance requirements. The more accurate method is the It is considered the better method because it: offers a simplified way of evaluating your potential level of need. considers all of the factors that might affect your potential level of need. Which of the following are potential financial resources that could be used to offset your family's costs and expenses after your death? Check all that apply. Existing financial assets, including your savings, investment, and retirement accounts. Government benefits, including Social Security survivors' benefits. The sale of physical assets, such as a house or a vehicle. Health insurance benefits 1. Apply What You've Learned - Life Insurance Planning Scenario: You are 30 years old with a gross annual income of $55,000. You are married with 2-year-old twin children. Your spouse is 30 years of age. You estimate that your final expenses for funeral, burial, and other expenses will be $15,000. You currently owe $185,000 on a mortgage, $25,000 on a car loan, and $20,000 in credit card debt. You would like to replace your income for 30 years, and believe that your insurance proceeds can be invested to earn a 5% return. You would also like a minimum of $60,000 for each child be placed in a college fund. You do not anticipate a need to fund a readjustment period for your spouse. You currently have a $80,000 whole life insurance policy. Two procedures may be used to estimate your life insurance requirements. The more accurate method is the It is considered the better method because it: offers a simplified way of evaluating your potential level of need. considers all of the factors that might affect your potential level of need. Which of the following are potential financial resources that could be used to offset your family's costs and expenses after your death? Check aff that apply. Existing financial assets, including your savings, investment, and retirement accounts. Government benefits, including Social Security survivors' benefits. The sale of physical assets, such as a house or a vehicle. Health insurance benefits Now, think more about the needs-based approach to estimating your life insurance requirements. To perform this analysis, make the following assumptions and computations: When calculating your replacement income, you should base your computation on of your current annual income. This is because: the costs of E. and any education expenses incurred by your spouse and dependents. Your readjustment-perio: needs are currently expected to be Your current short term debt-repayment needs are , and reflect the costs of your Therefore, your replacement-income requirement should be based on a base annual income of per year. These expected future amounts should be at a rate of for (Hint: The appropriate annuity interest factor is 15.3725.) Another important element in the needs-based method involves your spouse's and family's readjustment-period needs. This item is intended to cover the costs of . _ and any education expenses incurred by your spouse and dependents. Your readjustment-period needs are currently expected to be Your current short term debt-repayment needs are, and reflect the costs of your, Current Social Security benefits are detailed in the following table. Remember, that survivor bend jer than age 18 , to a surviving spouse caring for surviving children younger than age 16 , and to a survivi Current Soclal Security benefits are detailed in the following table. Remember, that survivor benefits are paid to surviving children younger than age 18 , to a surviving spouse caring for surviving children younger than age 16 , and to a surviving spouse aged 60 or older. The table of interest factors that can be used to compute the present value of an annuity is: Your twin's survivor benefits are currently expected to total per year for years. When they are discounted at 5% for this amount of time, using the 16-year interest annuity factor of 10.8378, they are expected to total computation of your spouse's survivor benefits, on the other hand, are more complex. Your spouse should expect to receive survivor benefits until your children are years of age. Given your present annual income, spousal benefits are estimated to be per year. (Hint: Don't forget that there is a maximum annual family benefit that may reduce the amount of your spouse's annual benefit.) When discounted at 5%, using the 14-year interest annuity factor of 9.3936, these spousal benefits should total According to the rules of the Social Security Administration, your spouse will experience a benefit blackout for the date on which the twins turn 18 until the spouse's 60t birthday. Your spouse will realize a Social Security blackout period that lasts for until age 60 Now use the data from your calculations above and that from your personal circumstances, to estimate the amount of life insurance your family requires using the needs-based approach. If your answer is zero, enter " 0 ". Which of the following statements regarding life insurance policies are true? Check all that apply. Death due to suicide is frequently excluded from coverage in life insurance agreements-but usually only for the first two years of a policy. Once you calculate your insurance needs, you don't ever have to do it again. A beneficiary does not have to pay taxes on the death benefit of a life insurance policy. It is illegal for a policyholder to borrow against the accumulated cash value of their life insurance policy. 1. Apply What You've Learned - Life Insurance Planning Scenario: You are 30 years old with a gross annual income of $55,000. You are married with 2-year-old twin children. Your spouse is 30 years of age. You estimate that your final expenses for funeral, burial, and other expenses will be $15,000. You currently owe $185,000 on a mortgage, $25,000 on a car loan, and $20,000 in credit card debt. You would like to replace your income for 30 years, and believe that your insurance proceeds can be invested to earn a 5% return. You would also like a minimum of $60,000 for each child be placed in a college fund. You do not anticipate a need to fund a readjustment period for your spouse. You currently have a $80,000 whole life insurance policy. Two procedures may be used to estimate your life insurance requirements. The more accurate method is the It is considered the better method because it: offers a simplified way of evaluating your potential level of need. considers all of the factors that might affect your potential level of need. Which of the following are potential financial resources that could be used to offset your family's costs and expenses after your death? Check all that apply. Existing financial assets, including your savings, investment, and retirement accounts. Government benefits, including Social Security survivors' benefits. The sale of physical assets, such as a house or a vehicle. Health insurance benefits