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Life Insurance Policy - Interesting And Smart Ways To Get More Affordable Rates

There are many things that will make you pay more or less for your life insurance policy. We'll take a look at some of them here...

1. Note that rates are per $1000 of coverage but are done in ranges. Every insurer fixes a rate for every $1,000 of coverage between, say, $250K and $499K and another charge per $1000 of coverage between $500K and $749K and so on.

The charge a hypothetical insurance company places for every $1,000 of coverage between $250K and $599K is $1.03. However, their rate drops to $0.91 per $1000 for coverage between $500,000 and $749,999. You will pay lower premiums if you settle for a coverage amount that is just more than a multiple of $250K by less than $20K than you would if you picked a coverage amount that is less than that same multiple of $250K by any amount that is less than $10K.

This is to say that you will pay cheaper premiums if you buy $520K of coverage than you would if you bought $490K. Let's do the math...

$490,000 x $1.03/$1,000 = $504.70

$520,000 x $0.91/1000 = $473.20

You'll save $31.50 while enjoying $30,000 more in coverage dollars!

2. Getting your life insurance policy from the same insurer who provides your other insurance policies will get you a discount in life insurance premium. Insurers give you a multi-policy discount to encourage you to buy other policies from them.

3. It's now clearly understood that smoking will attract higher rates. What many might not appreciate is that this is also true if you use any other form of tobacco product. For instance, you'll attract a more expensive life insurance rate if you chew or snuff tobacco. Staying away from all tobacco products will help you get cheaper life insurance.

4. Get and compare many quotes and you'll be in a better position to get the best deals out there. To do this well make sure you visit not less than five reputable sites for your quotes.

Here are great pages for life insurance quotes...

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Chimezirim Odimba writes on insurance.

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