Three Products Designed with Your Client’s Recovery in Mind

Almost everyone knows someone who has been diagnosed with one of the illnesses covered under the Critical Advantage portfolio, which makes it a great addition to your clients existing coverage. All of the products in the portfolio pay a lump-sum benefit upon diagnosis of a covered condition, and the check is sent directly to the policyholder, not the healthcare provider. This money can be used anyway they choose such as replacing lost income, travel expenses and ongoing living expenses. The Critical Advantage portfolio overview gives you information on all products in the portfolio, and a side-by-side comparison so you can
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Memorial Day Office Closing 2018

Mutual of Omaha and its affiliates (United of Omaha and United World) will be closed on Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day. We will also be closed Wednesday, July 4th for Independence Day. Below are the cut-off dates and times and the adjusted pay schedules. Holiday Pay Calculation Schedule Med Supp E-App & All Life Cutoff 3:00 PM Health Cutoff 3:00 PM Long Term Care Cutoff 3:00 PM Direct Deposit (EFT) Available Memorial Day, Monday 5/28/18 Tuesday 5/29/2018 Tuesday 5/29/2018 Friday 5/25/2018 Friday 5/25/2018 Friday 6/1/2018 Independence Day, Wednesday 7/4/2018 Monday 7/2/2018 Monday 7/2/2018 Friday 6/29/2018 Friday 6/29/2018 Friday 7/6/2018
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Categories: Accident Insurance, Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Critical Advantage Express and Simplified Underwriting

With a Critical Advantage policy, your clients get coverage that pays a lump-sum benefit upon diagnosis of a covered condition. It also offers two underwriting programs to give your clients the benefits they need faster. It also means you get paid faster. Express underwriting for Critical Advantage covers benefit amounts of $10,000 to $50,000. It has simple yes/no knock-out questions to make applying easy and fast. Simplified underwriting is for benefit amounts from $51,000 to $100,000. Simplified underwriting also has simple yes/no knock-out questions in addition to a MIB, Pharmaceutical inquiry and possible telephone interview. No matter which program you
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Update Contact Information on SPA

Is your contact information up to date? Ensure we have your current contact information. This information is used when completing e-Applications, for promotional mailings or email announcements we may send. It only takes a few minutes to verify/change your contact information we have on file: Log on to Sales Professional Access (www.mutualofomaha.com/broker) In the upper right-hand corner, select the image of the person Select “Profile” Review your information Update as needed your email address, mailing addresses and/or phone numbers After the change(s) are made, click “Update” It’s that easy to ensure we have your correct contact information. If you have
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Premium Payment Emails to Begin 10 Days Prior to Withdrawal Date

Effective May 1, 2018, premium payment reminder emails will be sent to all individual life and health policyholders approximately 10 days prior to the withdrawal date. Previously, this email was only sent to life customers who have registered on Customer Access. With this change, all individual life and health policyholders who pay their renewal premiums via automatic deduction and who have a deliverable email address in our records will receive this email. If you have any questions, please contact Mutual of Omaha’s Customer Service at 800-775-6000.   Premium Payment Emails to Begin 10 Days Prior to Withdrawal Date   #goldencareagent
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Omaha: Mobile Quotes Updates

In order to provide you with the best quoting experience, we continue to improve and upgrade the features of our Quotes for Sales Professionals mobile quoting app. Unfortunately, if you are running an old version of the mobile app, you may be missing out on some of our great new functionality. As of April 23, 2018, the following versions of the mobile app will no longer be supported: 0.0.5 0.0.6 1.0.5 1.2.3 1.2.25 1.2.39 1.3.40 1.3.58 1.3.70 1.3.97 1.3.107 2.0.11 2.0.24 2.0.35 2.0.48 2.0.53 2.0.57 2.0.66 2.0.76 2.0.77 2.1.18 2.2.5 2.3.8 2.4.17 The current version of the mobile app is
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Introducing the Cancer-Only Flyer

You know the Critical Advantage Portfolio provides coverage for critical illness, cancer and heart attack and stroke. If you have a client who is only interested in cancer insurance, a new cancer-only consumer flyer is now available. The new flyer describes the details of the cancer policy and how it can help fill the gaps in your client’s current health coverage. It can also be a good complement to a disability income insurance policy. Plus the benefit amount is sent directly to your client, not a health care provider. The cancer-only flyer is now available to order through all standard
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Critical Illness to the Rescue

There’s no need to walk away from a sale just because a prospective client doesn’t qualify for LTCi or doesn’t want to pay for coverage they feel they may never use. We encourage you to offer these people a Mutual of Omaha Critical Illness policy. Covered conditions include cancer, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease — many of the same conditions that lead people to need long-term care services. Mutual of Omaha’s CI includes a built-in return of premium benefit, lifetime coverage issued up to age 64, and no reduction in benefits at age 65. Best of all, benefits are paid directly
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

The Marketing Credits Program Just Got Better

More Ways to Earn Marketing Credits Marketing Credits can already be earned for the LTCi and Medicare Supplement applications agent place with Mutual of Omaha and its Affilates. Here’s where it gets even better. Mutual of Omaha now pays marketing credits on many of the collateral products customers may need, including Critical Illness, Cancer, Heart Attack/Stroke, and Priority Income Protection® (Disability Income). While details of how credits are paid vary slightly, one thing is the same… marketing credits help you find more customers and make more sales! It’s like cash in your pocket!  Marketing Credits can be used for all
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Categories: Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Why should you sell Critical Advantage insurance?

Why should you sell the products in the Critical Advantage Portfolio to your clients? The numbers tell the story. Nearly 1.7 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2016 27.6 million Americans have been diagnosed with heart disease Every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. has a stroke Nearly 5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease The products in the Critical Advantage Portfolio pay a lump-sum benefit upon diagnosis for all of these conditions and the money is sent directly to your client, not the health care provider. To learn more about the products in the Critical Advantage Portfolio, click
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Categories: Critical Illness, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).