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Family Protection Calculator

What would it take to protect their future?

The mortgage. Everyday bills. The kids’ education. Coverage should reflect the life a family is building, so start with what that life actually costs.

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$70,000

What the household would need to keep running.

10 years

Often until the youngest finishes school.

$250,000

What is still owed on the house.

$25,000

Vehicles, cards, loans, anything that would pass to the family.

$100,000

What you would want set aside, across all children.

$400,000

SGLI, VGLI, an employer policy, anything personal you already hold.

Estimated coverage gap

$675,000

The difference between what your family would need and what is already in force.

Income replacement$700,000
Mortgage$250,000
Other debts$25,000
Education$100,000
Total need$1,075,000
Already in force−$400,000

An estimate, not a quote. It does not account for your health, savings, benefits already payable to your family, or what a policy would actually cost.

How the estimate works

We add the income your household would need to replace, what is still owed on the house, other debts that would pass to the family, and what you would want set aside for school. Then we subtract the coverage already in force, including SGLI or VGLI.

What is left is the gap. It is a starting figure for a conversation, not a recommendation, and a real review usually moves it in one direction or the other.

Worth knowing

Term coverage can include living benefits, which let you access part of the death benefit while you are alive if you are diagnosed with a qualifying critical or chronic illness. Whether that is available to you, and on what terms, depends on the policy and on your eligibility.

It is one of the things most worth asking about, and one of the least explained. We will walk through it plainly, including when it does not apply.


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