DI Training Webinars

As a financial professional, you’ve likely seen how much income protection helps when someone needs it the most. Disability Insurance Awareness is a great time to learn about income protection and for you to talk to your clients about how disability income insurance can protect their lifestyle, their assets and most importantly, their family. We’re hosting a series of training webinars this month, so put the webinars on your calendar today. To join simply click “join now” on the webinar schedule, no registration needed. View DIAM webinar schedule.   DI Training Webinars   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month

May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month, so it’s a great time to talk with clients about income protection and what it could mean for their families when they need a real difference maker. When we think about our most valuable assets, we often think about our home or the other things we own. But for most people, their most valuable asset is actually their income. Consider this: If you were sick or injured and unable to work, how would you pay the mortgage or rent? Make your car payment? Pay health insurance premiums? Your income allows you to live your
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Start the Disability Income Insurance Conversation Today

Disability Insurance Awareness Month is here, making it a great time to remind clients about income protection and how it helps protect their ability to earn an income. Disability income insurance is a fairly easy topic to talk about – and one your clients should quickly understand. Yet, nearly 7 out of every 10 working Americans say they can’t make it a month without a paycheck before feeling major financial strains. Here are questions you can ask to start the income protection conversations: If you become sick or injured and unable to work, who’ll pay your expenses? Do you have
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Important Information on DI, CI and AD Policy Output Procedures

State government social distancing responses change daily, and it is increasingly difficult to know which of our distribution partners have the ability to maintain back office support for policy receipt and delivery. We also understand that any back-office support you have available today may be forced to discontinue tomorrow as the situation continues to evolve. Therefore, as an interim solution, we will begin mailing all Disability, Critical Illness and Accidental Death insurance policies direct to our customers effective April 11, 2020. This change is being implemented with the best interests of our customers and distribution partners in mind to ensure
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Categories: COVID-19, Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Paper Application Submission via Email

In November, we streamlined the submission process for all Life products and Health products (excluding Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug Plans and Long Term Care) by introducing the ability to submit paper applications and additional requirements via email. As a reminder, when utilizing the email options to submit either new business or additional requirements: Attachments must be in TIF or PDP file format (pictures are not accepted) Emails or attachments cannot be password protected Email subject lines must include either “New App” or the Policy Number “XXXXXXXXX” Multiple attachments must be for the same case file in the email
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Email Submission for Paper Applications

Sending a fax can be time-consuming and frustrating, that’s why we are pleased to announce paper applications can now be submitted via email. This update is effective immediately and available for all Life products and Health products, excluding Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug Plans and Long Term Care. While this new capability will streamline the submission process there are some very important steps to follow in order to make sure applications are being submitted correctly and securely. Please ensure you follow this guide when submitting new business and additional requirements via email. Thank you for your business and if
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Categories: Critical Illness, Dental, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Real Win– Why Choose Mutual of Omaha for DI?

Planning for the Unexpected Margaret, a married 30-year-old female, lives in the Midwest. In her profession as a nurse practitioner she sees individuals becoming sick and injured daily and knows why having an income protection plan is important. Her employer does not currently offer any disability benefits to their employees, so she began to research individual coverage for herself. As a member of the medical field, she was aware of the statistics with disabilities among those in her profession and knew that this plan was important to have for her and her family should an unexpected life event happen. During
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Disability Income Insurance Sales Update

There will be upcoming changes to certain Mutual of Omaha’s Disability Income products in December that will affect Massachusetts and Wyoming only. Due to state regulation changes we are suspending Disability Income Insurance sales in MA and WY. Any applications from these DI products signed after the dates shown below will not be accepted. Impacted DI applications in MA and WY must be processed by December 31, 2019. STATE PRODUCT NAME POLICY NUMBER EFFECTIVE DATE MA DI Choice DI Choice at Work D81, D82, D83, 150BE D81M, D82M 12.2.19 WY DI Choice DI Choice at Work D81, D82, D83, 150BE
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Categories: Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).