Living benefits

Life insurance benefits from which the insured can draw cash while still living, usually in the case of some high-cost illness.

Living Benefits

In life insurance, all or a portion of the death benefit that the policyholder may receive prior to death. The policyholder usually elects to receive living benefits during a terminal or catastrophic illness, especially one where health insurance does not cover all the bills. They are also called accelerated benefits. See also: Viatical settlement.

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These are called living benefits, as distinguished from death benefits.

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Hama Countryside, Syria, Safar 02, 1440, October 11, 2018, SPA -- SPA --King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) yesterday handed over living benefits to 150 orphans in a number of Syrian Regions, as part of an orphan living benefit project being provided by the center for 500 orphans in Syria.

KSRelief Center Hands over Living Benefits to 150 Orphans in Syria

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Long before we had living benefits, variable annuities were sold mostly for tax-deferred growth with a guarantee of principal at death.

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While death benefit protection is the foundation of any life insurance policy, focusing on the additional living benefits can make for a much more upbeat and positive conversation.

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In addition to the obvious long-term care products, this category also includes universal life with secondary guarantees, and variable annuities with living benefits, he said.

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New living benefits We have already seen the accelerated death benefit rider that offers access to a policy's death benefit when the insured is terminally ill.

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11 February 2014 -- New Jersey US-based financial services firm Prudential Financial's (NYSE: PRU) Prudential Annuities domestic annuity business said it has launched a new version of its Highest Daily variable annuity optional living benefits which allow investors to 'lock in' the highest daily value of their annuity contract for income purposes each day the market is open.