Sales Idea: A Planning Strategy to Cover Retirement Expenses

At some point in life, someone else – usually the children – may need to step in and manage their parents’ retirement expenses. Typically, this means writing checks from the parents’ checkbook. But, what happens if those funds are depleted? It may mean the child has to write checks from their own checkbook. Help your clients plan for this situation using a Life Protection Advantage IUL policy. Learn how by reading our How Will Your Client’s Retirement Expenses Get Paid? Sales Idea.   Sales Idea: A Planning Strategy to Cover Retirement Expenses   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Accelerate Your Business

Get faster decisions for your Standard, Standard Plus, Preferred and Preferred Plus clients on Term Life Answers, Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL. The process is easy. Simply submit a drop ticket, ExamOne contacts the client – we take care of the rest. We’ll provide an underwriting decision in 48-72 hours! The best part? NO paramed exam! Program Parameters Issue Ages: 18-60 Face Amounts: $100,000 – $2,000,000 Products Available: Term Life Answers (10-, 15-, 20- and 30- year), Income Advantage IUL and Life Protection Advantage IUL Applications: Speed eTicket (Drop Ticket) Learn more about Accelerated Underwriting and the
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Make Life Easier with Mobile Quotes

Mutual of Omaha’s “Quotes for Sales Professionals” mobile app makes your life easier by allowing you to quote on the go. The following products are available for mobile quoting: Life Products Indexed Universal Life Express (IULE) Living Promise Whole Life (Final Expense) Term Life Express (TLE) Term Life Answers (TLA) Guaranteed Universal Life Express (GULE) Children’s Whole Life (CWL) Health Products Guaranteed ADvantage (AD) Critical Advantage Individual Dental Medicare Supplement Long Term Care Priority Income Protection No more rates sheets and manual calculators. This tool allows you to enter your client’s information and get an instant quote right on your
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Categories: Accident Insurance, Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

COVID-19 participation guidelines update

Changes to COVID-19 participation guidelines to be implemented September 16, 2020 Securian Financial continues to focus on delivering high levels of service, helping customers with their insurance needs and maintaining the company’s financial strength. Your support in delivering on this focus has provided valuable insights to best navigate the unpredictable nature of a pandemic while addressing the additional risks it presents.   We are pleased to announce the following changes to the temporary COVID-19 participation guidelines effective September 16, 2020: Maximum issue age will increase to age 75 for all life products including SecureCare Universal Life (excluding Advantage Elite Select
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Categories: COVID-19, Industry News, Life Insurance, and Securian.

Life Insurance Awareness Month is Here

At the beginning of the year, we shared with you the clear vision we had for 2020. Unfortunately, 2020 had its own plans and our world was turned upside down. One thing; however, remained the same — customers still needed life insurance protection. And with your help, we’ve continued to offer sound planning solutions to help meet the needs of your customers and provided electronic solutions that made it easier for you to do business in today’s world. As we head into September, there’s no doubt this year’s Life Insurance Awareness Month is going to look a little different than
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Life and Annuity Policies Are Now Emailed

In August, Mutual of Omaha began sending emails with links to PDF copies of all Life and Annuity policies. Please note, policies will continue being mailed via the standard paper policy output process in addition to the new email process. Here’s How It Works An email is sent within 24 hours of policy issue The email is sent to the client, the writing agent, the top-level marketer and any authorized user designated by the writing agent or top level marketer with full access in Sales Professional Access (SPA) The email will contain a link to our Secure Message Portal system,
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Labor Day Office Closing 2020

Mutual of Omaha and its affiliates (United of Omaha & United World) will be closed on Monday, September 7th for Labor Day. Below are the cut-off dates and times and the adjusted pay schedules. Holiday Pay Calculation Schedule All Life Cutoff 3:00 PM All LTC Cutoff 3:00 PM Health Cutoff (New Issues) Health Cutoff (Renewals) Direct Deposit (EFT) Available Labor Day, Monday 9/07/2020 Tuesday, 9/08/2020 Tuesday, 9/08/2020 Friday, 9/04/2020 Friday, 9/04/2020 Tuesday, 9/08/2020 Friday, 9/11/2020 Weekly and holiday pay schedules are also available on the Sales Professional Access (SPA) website. If you have any questions, please contact your Sales Director
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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).

System Maintenance This Weekend

Beginning this Saturday evening we will be completing required system maintenance to our servers. During the maintenance window Sales Professional Access and iPipeline e-Application will be inaccessible. The planned outage will last 7:00 p.m. (CST) Saturday, August 29, 2020 through 7:00 a.m. (CST) Sunday, August 30, 2020. For consideration of additional time zones, the outage window will be: Eastern – 8:00 p.m. Saturday through 8:00 a.m. Sunday Mountain – 6:00 p.m. Saturday through 6:00 a.m. Sunday West Coast – 5:00 p.m. Saturday through 5:00 a.m. Sunday After the brief outage you will be able to access Sales Professional Access and
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

WinFlex Tip: Navigating an IUL Illustration Using the New Illustration Contents Menu

Have you spent time looking at the new IUL illustrations that were introduced in July? There were many new features, including a complete redesign to improve the look, updates to the language to make it more client-friendly, a Your Policy Highlights section that gives clients a quick overview of the key benefits, and new table layouts to make the ledgers easier to read. One enhancement that you may not have noticed is the new Table of Contents. While a Table of Contents may not seem like a ‘wow’ feature, it can definitely help you quickly navigate to where you need
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

How to Safely Conduct Business

As we shared with you earlier this year, Mutual of Omaha continues to focus on providing information and recommendations to help protect the health and safety of our associates and ensure uninterrupted service to our customers and you. We are all encouraged to do our part to slow the spread of the coronavirus by social distancing, practicing good hygiene and following the CDC guidelines in the areas and states where you do business in. Below are Health and Safety guidelines to help provide a safe way to conduct business. Opt for video meetings or phone calls when possible. Avoid in-person
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Categories: COVID-19, Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).