Term Assurance – Buy Life Insurance Young

Life insurance is important if you have dependents. It protects those who rely on your income – your spouse for example or your children if you have any. It can also help them pay for your funeral costs if you die young. Term assurance is the most affordable and reasonably priced life insurance. It covers a limited timeframe – often the fixed term assurance is in timeframes of around 25 years. This means it covers your younger years – the years when life insurance may be the last thing on your mind. But there is a lot to be said for buying term assurance in your youth.

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Why Buy Young?

If you have a young family, you probably don’t have lots of spare cash. So how do you safeguard their future if you don’t have pots of gold awaiting them at the end of the rainbow? A term assurance policy is the cheapest way of getting life cover. So if something happens to you in the next 25 years, you can be sure that you’re mortgage for example will be covered and your family’s financial future protected.

Term Assurance Life Insurance

Term assurance is suitable for young people, especially young parents. It’s affordable and budget-friendly because the odds are, you won’t die in your 20s, 30s or 40s. Of course, the downside is when you do get older, premiums tend to get higher. By retirement age however, many people have paid their mortgages, have pensions and savings in place and their children have flown the nest. This means term assurance or life insurance is not as necessary then if when you were younger, with a young family and less to fall back on.

Term Assurance – A Simple Option

Term assurance is the simplest as well as the cheapest life insurance you can buy. If you die within the term assured, your family will receive a lump sum. If you don’t, you won’t receive anything, but do you want to take the risk? The fact of life is we can’t control when our own death will occur. But we can minimise the financial impact our death could have on our loved ones. Term assurance policies are commonly used to pay a loan, such as a mortgage, in the event of the death of the borrower (or life assured).

Decreasing Term Assurance

Many popular life insurance options include Decreasing Term Assurance, which means the sum assured will decrease over the term of the policy – which ties in with capital and interest repayment mortgages – as they decrease over the years, so will the sum assured.

Jump Money are specialists in life insurance and are there to answer any questions you may have related to life insurance, life assurance, term insurance and life cover.  They will strive to fit an insurance package to the exact criteria you need in order to help you avoid buying products you do not need as well as helping you fully understand your purchase. 

To find out more about how Jump Money can help you protect yourself and your belongings call now on 0845 8516262 or visit the website at www.jumplifeinsurance.co.uk.

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