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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Real-Life Story: Bakouris Family
Dore was newly married, had a one-year old son and had just returned to work. She was 27, and life was just starting to fall into place. Then she started suffering from severe headaches. Given that she had no previous health issues, she went to the emergency room and got a CT scan. Thankfully Dore had done insurance planning at a young age, given her husband, Steve, was their insurance professional. Disability Income Insurance made a difference for their family. Watch the Bakouris family’s story by clicking here, or on the image below: Real-Life Story: Bakouris Family #goldencareagent
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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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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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Important Life Underwriting Update
Throughout the rapidly evolving pandemic, Mutual of Omaha has been continuously evaluating our underwriting and new business practices to support business continuity, deliver a consistently high level of service, and maintain our financial strength. As a result, effective Wednesday, April 15, 2020, we are implementing the following temporary changes to our life insurance underwriting guidelines. These changes apply to all fully-underwritten life insurance cases that are not already approved or issued. This includes any newly submitted and pending in-house cases, whether formal or informal. Postponements Due to International Travel All fully-underwritten life insurance cases where the proposed insured has plans
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Increased Simplified Underwriting Amounts for Disability Income
Mutual of Omaha is committed to helping you continue to meet the income protection needs of your clients. We have good news to share, to make it easier to sell disability income insurance. Effective immediately, we are making the following enhancement to new applications for simplified underwriting guidelines: Increasing the amount from $3,000 to $6,000 of monthly benefit Advantages of Simplified Underwriting: Ages 18-45, no labs up to and including $6,000 Age 46+ blood urine, physical data No financial requirements up to and including $6,000 monthly benefit, all benefit periods* *If requesting the self-employed discount, two-year financial documentation will be
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Quick and Easy Underwriting with Critical Advantage
Did you know your clients may be eligible for coverage even if they have been diagnosed in the past for cancer, heart attack or stroke? Check out the great underwriting features for all the Critical Advantage products. Cancer application Cancer look-back is 10 years* Look back testing is 3 years Only 3 health questions Heart attack and stroke application Heart attack/stroke look back is 10 years* Look back for treatment and testing is 3 years Controlled diabetes diagnosis considered Only 4 health questions Critical Illness application Cancer look-back is 10 years* Look back for treatment and testing is 3 years
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Turn DI Objections into Sales
Whether you’re a new or seasoned producer selling disability income insurance you should be aware of reasons people think they don’t need this essential coverage. The key is to be prepared for anything a prospective client might say. Objection: “Nothing will happen to me. I don’t need DI.” It’s probably human nature to think like this. However, clients who raise this objection simply are not facing reality of losing their income. If your client missed three months’ worth of income, how would they pay their expenses? As an insurance professional looking out for your client’s best interests, it’s your job
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The Risk is Real
While most people don’t think twice about purchasing auto, homeowners’ or even life insurance, they often fail to realize that their most valuable asset is their ability to earn an income. Suffering a disability for any length of time because of a sickness or injury could have devastating financial consequences for clients. Here are some insights into how real the risks are: At least 51 million working adults in the United States are without disability insurance other than the basic coverage available through Social Security. Only 48 percent of American adults indicate they have enough savings to cover three months
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Supplementing Disability Income Insurance Coverage
Some consumers may have a disability income policy insurance through their employer, it’s important to ask them about how the policy would pay. Consider whether the policy’s monthly benefits would begin to pay benefits soon enough. Clients need to understand their existing coverage to help solve the protection gap. One solution is to supplement current employer coverage with an individual short-term disability income insurance. Short-term coverage can help pay monthly benefits sooner than an employer’s long-term disability insurance policy. And it can pay up until the time employer-sponsored benefits begin. As a producer, you can provide more complete income protection
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