Riders in Term Insurance Cover

Accidental Rider

You must be knowing that in this policy you have to pay an additional premium called the rider in order to procure the benefits of this policy .If you have taken a term insurance policy with a sum assured of 40 Lakhs you can pay an additional premium called the accidental rider for a sum assured of 20 Lakhs If you were to die in an accident then you would get the sum assured of 40 Lakhs and an additional 20 Lakhs owing to the accidental rider benefits,

Critical Illness Rider

You must be knowing that term insurance policy is a pure protection policy. There are no survival benefits if you survive the term of the policy. You know the cost of health care nowadays has gone through the roof? Imagine if you were to get a heart attack during the course of your term policy. You would get nothing isn’t it? You can take a critical illness rider on paying an additional premium called critical illness rider premium. These policies cover Heart Attack, Kidney Failure, Stroke, Coronary artery bypass and so on. By taking this kind of a policy you can save yourself from serious financial damage.

Waiver Of Premium Rider

You must be knowing that during the course of your life and work you can suffer from a permanent disability or lose your job which can result in a permanent or temporary loss in income. This would result in the lapse of your term policy .If you were to die you would get nothing as your policy has lapsed. On payment of an additional premium you can continue to enjoy the protection of your term insurance policy even if you were to lose your source of income or suffer from a serious permanent disability. This would be valid until the policy expiry date.

Income Benefit Rider

Let us consider that you have taken this rider .In case of your death your family will get the sum assured as well as an additional income. On payment of the premium you will get a 10% additional amount on the sum assured maybe for a period of 5 years depending on how the policy is structured.

I would like to end this article with the famous phrase ” If You Were Born Without Wings Do Nothing To Prevent Them From Growing “.The term insurance policy with a critical illness rider is a must have for a young working individual during his initial working years as it serves as a wealth builder during the time in which his earning are relatively lesser. So you do not have that term insurance policy? What are you waiting for? Book it Now.