Life Insurance Enables You to Give Your Kids a Head Start

One of the most valuable gifts that you can give your children is a head start in life. Life insurance is an important vehicle that you can leverage to plan for your children’s future. Life insurance increases your children’s financial options when they grow older and life insurance planning should begin when your children are young. The reason that life insurance planning should start when your children are young is because that is when insurance premiums will be their lowest. 

When your children are older and starting out they will appreciate your foresight because they may have expenses that make it challenging for them to find the money to pay for their own life insurance premiums, premiums that will be higher once they’re older. Life insurance is not only used to protect people in the event of death. Whole life insurance policies offer tax benefits and can be used to establish savings that can be put towards education and other financial planning.

Arranging life insurance coverage for children provides guaranteed insurability. Many insurance companies offer options that guarantee an insured’s right to purchase additional insurance without having to submit to insurability testing like medical exams. We don’t know what the future holds so this can provide a massive sense of relief for someone who develops a medical condition as an adult that would make them uninsurable or make life insurance extremely costly. In addition, your children’s career and lifestyle choices can also impact their insurability later in life. Your foresight will mean that if they make choices that would have impacted their insurability that you have coverage in place for them.

As we mentioned whole life insurance policies offer the benefit of carrying a cash value. This means that as you contribute to the life insurance policy you are in fact building up a source of funds that your child can use in the future. This can even be looked upon when the time comes for your child to come up with a down payment on their first home. If your child doesn’t end up using the cash, the investment portion of the life insurance policy will continue to grow, tax advantaged for use later on in their life.

Finally, life insurance provides crucial support to families. In the unlikely event that something did happen to one of your children, their life insurance will prevent you from dealing with financial hardships while you are dealing with your emotional loss. You will be able to plan for not only funeral expenses and outstanding medical bills but will also be able to afford to take time off work beyond your employer’s bereavement leave. Tax free insurance funds will give you the financial flexibility to get through the incredibly tough time that comes with the death of a loved one.

There really is no better time than when your children are young to start planning for their financial future, and working with a life insurance advisor can ensure that you come up with an insurance strategy that deals with today and issues that could present themselves in the future.  

For more information about life insurance planning that enables you to give your children a head start in the future please contact Gary Mandel at 416-849-1653 or visit www.wecoveryou.ca