How sick is the long-term care insurance industry?The headlines are bleak:“What’s killing the long-term care insurance industry?”“Costs of Long-Term Care Rise While Payment Options Narrow”Contrary to what is often published on the internet, long-term care insurance...
There are 10 tax-friendly ways to pay long-term care insurance premiums. Depending on your situation, you could save hundreds (possibly thousands) of dollars in income taxes over several years by applying just one of these methods. Caveat: LTCFacts.org is not a tax...
How does the Inflation Benefit impact the Daily Benefit of your long-term care insurance policy? The Daily Benefit is the single most important part of your long-term care policy. The Daily Benefit, however, is linked to the Inflation Benefit. How much your...
It depends upon the type of the policy you buy. There are two types of long-term care policies that can never have a rate increase: Single-pay long-term care policies and Limited pay long-term care policies with corresponding rate guarantees. Single-pay long-term care...
Inflation Protection = A policy option that provides for increases in benefit levels to help pay for expected increases in the costs of long-term care services.
