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Choosing the Right Mortgage Life Insurance

Mortgage Life Insurance provides a death benefit that will pay down the mortgage in case of the death of the insured. The main reason anyone would get a mortgage life insurance policy is to assure that his family would not have to be concerned with paying the mortgage in case of his death.

The two kinds of mortgage life insurance are decreasing term and level term. The most used, since it has a benefit that systematically decreases as the loan principal decreases is called, logically enough, decreasing term life insurance. Since the benefit gets less and less, the premium is affordable. Those with a repayment type mortgage, where the balance decreases over the term of the loan, will usually choose this kind of insurance. Initially, the amount of the policy should be about the outstanding balance on the mortgage and go down according to the mortgage balance, so that upon death, the policy is for an amount that is enough to pay off the balance on the loan.

This kind of policy only covers the insured if he dies while the policy is in force. If the policy expires, it then becomes void, and there is no surrender value and the insured gets nothing if he is still living at the end of the term of the policy. The sole purpose of this kind of insurance is to pay the mortgage.

The other kind of mortgage life insurance is level term life. The policy is the same level, but the term is based on the maturity of the mortgage. It's fairly simple: if your mortgage is a thirty year one, your policy will be a thirty year policy. Nothing changes regarding the benefit, the way it does with a decreasing term life policy. The policy will most likely cover the repayment of the loan with funds left over for the beneficiary if the policy has been in effect for a time and therefore the mortgage balance has been partially paid down.

If you have a mortgage whose balance stays the same during the whole time, this is perfect solution. Since the amount of the loan remains the same, the amount of the policy remains the same over the term of the policy.

This means that there is the same amount for the beneficiary regardless of when the policy is activated. Still, as with a decreasing policy, the policy is useless once the policy is not paid off during its term of effectiveness.

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Submitted 2010-09-04 04:11:28
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