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Cash Value

The amount of cash that becomes available to an insured person upon the cancellation of his/her insurance policy. Most often, this applies to the savings portion of a canceled whole life policy. This value is considered an asset and can be borrowed against or used as collateral. It may also be called a cash surrender value or a surrender value.

Cash value.

Cash value is the amount that an account is worth at any given time.

For example, the cash value of your 401(k) or IRA is what the account is worth at the end of a period, such as the end of a business day, or at the end of the plan year, often December 31.

The cash value of an insurance policy is the amount the insurer will pay you, based on your policy's cash reserve, if you cancel your policy. The cash value is the difference between the amount you paid in premiums and the actual cost of insurance plus other expenses.

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In participating whole life, death benefits and cash values are guaranteed, and the resulting profits are distributed among the policyholders as dividends.

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If the plan is to use policy cash values for living needs, the policyowner will want to avoid MEC status.

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Unlike many other products, participating whole life insurance offers three important guarantees: a guaranteed, level premium that will not increase for the life of the contract; guaranteed cash values and nonguaranteed dividends that accumulate on a tax-deferred basis and can be accessed through loans throughout the policyholder's lifetime; and a guaranteed death benefit to beneficiaries, which is usually income tax-free.

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Finally, withdrawals may also be used to access cash values.

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While term insurance can provide a lot of protection for a lesser cost, it builds no cash values and has no permanent values.

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Whole life cash values have been one of the best performing asset categories for the last ten years and that will continue.

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To identify plan abuses, the IRS is looking at the use of "springing cash values," which occurs when a plan makes large initial payments on its insurance contracts, then the plan is terminated and the contracts transferred to plan participants.

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Based on this narrow view it's no wonder so many CPAs fall into the trap of agreeing to allow unneeded policies to lapse or be surrendered for just their cash values.

New value in old policies

If you must buy a cash-value policy, universal life is cheaper than whole life and builds cash values sooner.

Buying life insurance: choosing the right policy can protect and preserve your assets for your kids without costing their inheritance

All capital gains and losses from those funds pass through to the policy's cash values.