A rider is an add-on cover to the base policy that provides additional benefits. Life insurance companies offer a range of optional riders that you can buy at an additional premium to suit your needs. In case an accident leaves the policyholder permanently disabled, the rider will pay the specified sum insured.

double indemnity rider

Riders are essentially additional benefits added to an insurance policy that often require an additional premium payment. In this way, riders can customize a life insurance policy to address specific needs or concerns.

Paid-up additional insurance is available as a rider on a whole life policy. It lets policyholders increase their death benefit and living benefit by increasing the policy’s cash value. Paid-up additions themselves then earn dividends, and the value continues to compound indefinitely over time.

Generally, you can withdraw a limited amount of cash from your whole life insurance policy. In fact, a cash-value withdrawal up to your policy basis, which is the amount of premiums you’ve paid into the policy, is typically non-taxable. A cash withdrawal shouldn’t be taken lightly.

A life insurance policy in which if all the premium payments are complete and the insured is free of all payment obligations, the policy stays intact until insured’s death or termination of the policy is called paid-up policy. …

Paid-up value is calculated by multiplying the original sum assured and the ratio of the number of premiums paid to the number of premiums payable. Let us consider that you pay the Rs 25,000 annual premium on a quarterly basis, and the sum assured is Rs 5 lakh for a policy term of 20 years.

Paid-up additions are paid-up miniature life insurance policies. They build up cash value equal to the amount you pay in (if you pay in $5, you accrue $5 in cash value). They also offer a death benefit, and earn dividends and interest from your insurance company, which are added to the cash value.

When one stops paying premiums after a certain period, the policy continues but with lower sum assured. This sum assured is called the paid up value. More the number of premiums paid, more is the surrender value.

It is the option to exit from life insurance product before maturity wherein policyholder will get the amount which is called as Surrender Value. A regular premium policy will be eligible for surrendering after the policyholder has paid the premiums continuously for 3 years.

Guaranteed Surrender: The policy can be surrendered only after it has crossed at least 3 years. In case if the insured stop paying the premium after the completion of 3 policy years, LIC Jeevan Saral policy acquires a paid up value for the reduced sum assured amount and the policy continues to be enforce.

No. You will get a portion of your money only if you have paid consecutive premiums for two years (if premium paying term is less than 10 years), and three years (if premium paying term is more than 10 years). If you surrender before this, you do not get back any money.

Moreover, if you have paid your premiums for more than four years, but less than five years, then you will receive 90% of the total maturity sum assured as a special surrender value. A 100% special surrender value is given out if the policyholder has regularly paid the premiums for five years.

Guaranteed Surrender Value Factors for the premiums paid

On surrendering after two policy years, the insurance company will pay a guaranteed surrender value of minimum 30% of all premiums paid after deducting the first year’s premium. In case you opt for paid up option, the invested amount with return earned will be paid out on due maturity date.

Mandatory Documents for Policy Surrender:

1. Policy bond – the original copy.
2. Printout of LIC policy surrender form No.
3. A cancelled cheque from the policyholder’s bank.
4. Policyholder will be required to utilise the LIC NEFT form, if above-mentioned form No.
5. Proof of identification like Aadhaar card needs to be carried along.

People who no longer need their life insurance policy, or who have immediate financial needs, should consider surrendering it. But if you still need a life insurance policy and you don’t have a replacement policy lined up, you should not surrender it.

By surrendering your policy, you’re agreeing to take the cash surrender value that the insurance company has assigned to your policy, and in return, forgoing the death benefit. Whole and universal policies accrue cash value, making them the most likely option for surrender.

Whole life insurance, permanent life insurance, variable life insurance and universal life insurance all have cash value components, which means that if you cancel your policy, you will get some money back. Term life insurance does not offer a cash value option.

If you outlive your term life policy, you usually don’t get any money. Return of premium (ROP) term life gives you back the premiums. The downside is you’ll pay more than a regular term life policy. If ROP interests you, compare policies with and without that rider to see whether the extra cost is worth it.

In most cases, your beneficiary won’t have to pay taxes on the death benefit. But if you want to cash in your policy, it may be taxable. If you have a cash-value policy, withdrawing more than your basis (the money it’s gained) is taxable as ordinary income.

You (or your partner) must get one or more of the following:

• Income Support.
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance.
• income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
• Pension Credit.
• Housing Benefit.
• the disability or severe disability element of Working Tax Credit.
• Child Tax Credit.
• Universal Credit.

If someone dies, then the representative of their estate, such as an executor or administrator, should sign the return when filing taxes for the deceased. If it’s a joint return, the surviving spouse should sign it and say they are a surviving spouse on the tax return.