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What is disability income protection insurance?
How long could you maintain your present living standards without your current income? For almost anyone who
works for a living, to be disabled and to be unable to earn an income, even for a short time, can mean financial stress - and even disaster.
Disability income protection
is designed to replace the income lost as a result of disability from illness or accident by protecting your earnings and your earning potential - perhaps your most valuable asset.
Why should you take out disability income protection insurance?
- To guarantee income continuity in the event of sickness or accident.
- To avoid a company having to fund the continuing salary for a disabled employee longer than may be otherwise
desirable.
- To pay the expenses of the business which would continue to be payable in the event of a principal owners
disability.
What Are Your Chances For Long-term Income Loss?
Anyone can get sick. Anyone can have an accident. Anyone can be out of work for over three months and lose their
income.
In fact, today, because of impressive progress in the medical field, many lives are saved from premature death caused by accidents or sickness.
Because of this, an increasing number of survivors live on, but with impairments or limitations that mean they can't perform the major duties of their own occupation. In short, they lose their current income but not their life. Their quality of life may diminish.
Statistics show that the probability for long-term disability for at least 90 days before you reach age 65* is high. If such a long term disability does occur it can at
minimum have a devastating impact on your savings, at the very least.
Your Savings May Not Be Enough:
If you're like most people, you have only two months savings in the bank as a protection against emergencies. Yet
the average long-term loss of income due to disability is 5.5 years.*
Even if you save ten percent of your income for ten years, it may take only one year of mortgage payments and
meeting other bills to devastate your savings completely. Now the question is, what will you have to live on for the next four years?
Today, your income is doing a double job for you. It provides for today's necessities and helps you save for tomorrow's hopes.
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But if a disabling injury or illness strikes and you have no income, your needs for the basic necessities will
continue. You'll still be obligated to meet the mortgage, car and credit card payments, as well as medical costs not covered by your insurance. But
plans for a comfortable retirement, the children's education and a better life may have to be put off, if not discarded altogether.
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