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Buying insurance? Do not make these big mistakes

It is important that everyone takes insurance not only for covering liability, but also to ensure that their dependents are able to continue with the life and lifestyle of their choice in case of any unfortunate event.

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Buying insurance? Do not make these big mistakes
Many people are underinsured compared to their financial value to their family. Let us see some of the common mistakes policyholders make. Image source: Reuters
Written By: ZeeBiz WebTeam
Updated: Tue, Oct 23, 2018
12:19 pm
Mumbai, ZeeBiz WebDesk
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Many people are underinsured compared to their financial value to their family. Let us see some of the common mistakes policyholders make.

Buying insurance for tax benefits
Most men who are bread winners for the family are generally insured only to the extent of the premium required for their tax benefits or in order to cover their home loan. It is imperative that they do a financial need analysis to ensure that their insurance cover is adequate to ensure that their dependents - parents, spouse and children can maintain a decent lifestyle in case of any eventuality. Also in case of any financial crunch due to job loss or illness or any other emergency people tend to stop paying insurance premium and lapse the policy and lose cover. They should ensure that at any point of time the premium should be paid to ensure the cover is in force.

Majority of women, especially housewives are not insured adequately while they continue providing support to their spouse, children and families as this is not measurable in economic terms. Working women also take insurance just to take care of tax breaks for income tax or cover their home loans and don’t really work out their financial worth before taking insurance to protect the lifestyles of their dependents.

Buying insurance in children’s names
Another common mistake is that instead of insuring their own lives adequately to ensure that children’s future needs are taken care of, most parents buy insurance on the life of the child. In case of any unfortunate event the child will not have the financial means to pay the premium and the policy would lapse. It is important to ensure that parents are covered adequately to meet the future needs of the child. We need to make insurance cover a major part of our financial planning for achieving our long-term financial goals and not push this in the background hoping that nothing will happen to us.

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It is important that everyone takes insurance not only for covering liability, but also to ensure that their dependents are able to continue with the life and lifestyle of their choice in case of any unfortunate event.

By: Lalitha Bhatia
(The writer is chief operating officer, IDBI Federal Life Insurance)

Source: DNA Money

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