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Critical illness insurance can help you:
Reduce debt and other financial concerns while you cope with your illness.
Replace any reduced or lost income for you and your spouse, who may wish to take time off work to care for you.
Bring in additional help at home for you and your family.
Consider new medical treatments and medications not covered by private or government health insurance plans.
How much do you need?
Depending on the severity of your illness, you may need to take time off work. Let’s consider your income and expenses to determine how much coverage you need.
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First, let’s look at your income
- How much income might you lose if you were too sick to work?
- If your spouse had to take a leave of absence how much income would they lose?
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Now, let’s look at your current expenses.
- Mortgage or rent
- Loans and other debts
- Groceries and utilities
- Credit card payments
- Other living expenses
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Lastly, keep in mind you may incur additional expenses.
- Healthcare (hospital room, drug costs, etc.)
- Travel for treatments
- Childcare during treatment and recovery
- Domestic help (live-in nurse)
These are some of the expenses that can give you an idea of how much coverage you may need. This is only the first step.
What happens if I never get sick?
Some insurance contracts may, in certain circumstances, offer to return the premiums you’ve paid. This option is not available in all contracts. For example:
- If you do not claim compensation at the end of a critical illness insurance contract, your insurer may return the insurance premiums you have paid. After this payment, you will no longer be insured by your critical illness insurance.
- if you die during the contract If you die from an illness other than one of the illnesses indicated in your contract while you are insured by critical illness insurance, some insurers will offer to return your paid premiums to your heirs. In this case however, they will not receive any death benefit, since critical illness insurance is not life insurance.