Term Life InsuranceYes, term life insurance is
temporary insurance
simply because it has a date where it must end...after 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, 25 years or 30 years. The big problem is that most people have permanent needs for life insurance. We like to fool ourselves into thinking things like this. "I have sufficient life insurance to take care of the children while they are in school. After they graduate I will have no need for that
term life insurance policy
any more."
When you get a low premium term life insurance quote you are usually thinking of paying out the least possible premium as you have a growing family which is costing a lot to maintain. In many a case the buyer is not thinking that the value of the money that will be paid out may be sufficient for today's living standards but the purchase value of today's dollar will have decreased significantly 10 or 15 years down the line. Of course, these problems can be solved by anticipating the rise in living costs and buying
sufficient insurance
to keep pace with it..
When you get this low premium term life insurance quote you may not have considered that you may have another one or two children costing more to maintain. Thus the need for even more life insurance.
If you need some cash down the line there will be none available to you from your level term policy. Unlike whole life it has no cash value. You must die to win.
What about when your spouse and yourself get into your late sixties, seventies or even eighties. Will you need life insurance then? The odds are that you will and your term policy will have expired. You may try to buy some new insurance then but you may learn that you are not insurable.