Updated Mutualcare Solutions E-App Guide – Available Now

Note Important new changes to the MutualCare Solutions E-App guide. In an effort to protect data, there is an update in the LTC eSignature Authentication process; When the client clicks the link from the email, they must authenticate themselves by entering certain fields. Now, there is a limit on the number of times the client may attempt to authenticate. If the client fails to successfully answer the authentication prompts 5 times in a row, he/she will be “locked out”. At this point, producer or the upline may unlock the client’s access by re-sending the signature email. After the producer/upline has
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Have clients that don’t qualify for GTL’s Hospital Indemnity Plan?

GTL provides the tools you need to sell Short-Term Home Health Care Insurance!   Watch Video   View Infographic   Access other helpful materials in the Consumer Marketing section on GTLink!   $150, $300 or $450 maximum daily benefit options! Great cross-selling opportunity and compliments our other great products! Available on paper, portal and the GTL e-App! $100, $200 or $300 per-day Accident and Sickness Hospitalization Rider $40, $80 or $120 per-day Home Health Care Aide benefits! Prescription benefit year maximum of $300 or $600! Log In To The Agent Portal     #goldencareagent #gtl
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Categories: Guarantee Trust Life, Industry News, and Short-Term Care.

NGL EssentialLTC Updated 2023 Tax Summary

Updated 2023 Tax Summary The Tax Summary has been updated to include the changes to 2023 Eligible Long Term Care Premiums (ELTCPs). The flyer is a great way to find out the tax advantages LTCi has for individuals and businesses. Below are last year’s and this year’s ELTCPs for your reference. 2022 ELTCPs:   2023 ELTCPs:   The Tax Summary will be available on the Agent Resource Center under Marketing Tools category under the Sales & Marketing tab beginning Friday, January 13, 2023. For agent inquiries contact your dedicated Agent Services Team at 888-505-2332 or status@ngl-essentialltc.com. For sales questinos contact
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and National Guardian Life.

New ways to grow your business in 2023

Let’s get it going in 2023 As you embark on another successful sales year, you can count on Mutual of Omaha to provide you and your producers with more tools and resources to help grow your business. Watch for details on how Mutual of Omaha will further support your sales efforts in 2023: A new e-App storefront that allows your producers to seamlessly transition between Med supp, prescription drug plan, and dental sales, and view the cases they submit A case monitoring system to easily track cases and provide access to producers’ books of business Expansion of competitively priced Medicare
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Categories: Industry News, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

System Issue: Cancelation requests through SureBridge Self-Service Tool not processed

We recently identified a system issue with the SureBridge Self-Service tool (myportal.surebridgeinsurance.com) that prevented policy cancelation requests made through the portal from being processed between Nov. 23, 2022 and Jan. 7, 2023. This issue is isolated to cancelation requests only and updates have been made to correct the issue. The tool should be working as expected again. The policies affected are being identified and will be processed accordingly. Any refunds that may be due could take up to 10 days to be processed. This email is for information purposes only and requires no action by the agent. If you have
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Categories: Dental, Industry News, and SureBridge.

Watch Video | Changes in Leadership at GTL

  Changes in Leadership at Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company. Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company is announcing the following changes effective immediately. Carl Leader, formerly GTL’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, will be taking on a new role for GTL as Chief Marketing Officer and Assistant Chief Operations Officer. Rush Holson will assume the role of Vice President of Sales while vacating a similar position at UNL, GTL’s sister company. In this capacity he will work with GTL’s Sales Managers and its various distribution partners. Rush is the 4th generation of the Holson family to serve as an
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Categories: Guarantee Trust Life and Industry News.

Advanced Markets Minute – January 2023

SECURE 2.0 Welcome to the Advanced Markets Minute in both print and audio form. Today we’re going to discuss key provisions of Division T of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, better known as SECURE 2.0 Listen Now   After widespread bipartisan support, the long discussed SECURE 2.0 has passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022 Just like the SECURE Act of 2019 made significant changes to retirement accounts, SECURE 2.0 implements many more changes and expands on some changes made by the original Act. The new law has close
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Categories: Industry News, Life Insurance, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Attention All Pennsylvania Agents | Important Notice

MEMORANDUM To: From: Date: Subject: ALL PENNSYLVANIA AGENTS Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company (GTL) 1/17/2023 2023 MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT RATES At GTL, we appreciate the Medicare Supplement business that you have placed with us. In our effort to always keep you well-informed, the Department of Insurance in your state has approved a rate increase for the Medicare Supplement policies: PA — Plans A, B, F, G & N:  9% Any new business received at GTL that has an application date of March 1, 2023 or later must reflect the new rates. Applications dated March 7, 2023 and prior must be received
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Categories: Guarantee Trust Life, Industry News, and Medicare Supp./Adv..

Attention All Georgia Agents | Important Notice

MEMORANDUM To: From: Date: Subject: ALL GEORGIA AGENTS Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company (GTL) 1/18/2023 2023 MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT RATES At GTL, we appreciate the Medicare Supplement business that you have placed with us. In our effort to always keep you well-informed, the Department of Insurance in your state has approved a rate increase for the Medicare Supplement policies: GA — Plans A, F, G & N:  12% Any new business received at GTL that has an application date of April 1, 2023 or later must reflect the new rates. Applications dated March 31, 2023 and prior must be received at
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Categories: Guarantee Trust Life, Industry News, and Medicare Supp./Adv..

New: Extended Care Conversation Guide

In the first part of the year, we are focusing on resources and tools to help advisors have proactive conversations about extended care planning. Today, we debut our new Extended Care Conversation Guide, filled with talking points and leading questions designed to engage your clients. Watch for additional resources in the coming weeks. New: Extended Care Conversation Guide This 7 page conversation guide was developed to facilitate better extended care discussions. It is meant to be used to learn a prospect or client’s perspective on long-term care. As with many conversations about aging, long-term care can be a sensitive topic.
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Thrivent.