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Long-term insurance is not safe at all: it is safer to invest on your own

A family dispute over long-term care insurance leads to the speaker's surrender-and-invest comparison and a quoted article's discussion of benefit tests, waiting periods, and reassessment.

Published
Nov 22, 2023
Total duration
5:49
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CLEC Investment & Wealth

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Video Overview

When the viewer and his siblings were young, their father purchased several insurance policies for them. Now retired, the father expects the children to take over premiums of about NT$10,000 a year on a long-term care policy. The viewer would prefer to invest the money in 00662 but struggles to address his father's concern about wasting premiums already paid. The speaker responds with his own family experience: his mother worked in insurance, later surrendered policies, and invested part of her retirement funds. He also compares continued premiums with a hypothetical long-term investment after surrender. The final portion relays an article about daily-living tests, waiting periods, and later medical reassessment for long-term care benefits. Surrender authority, policy terms, benefit eligibility, investment results, and all amounts are the speaker's claims, examples, or quoted material; they cannot replace review of the actual policy or professional guidance.

Key Takeaways

  • The viewer wants to explain why he does not wish to keep paying for long-term care insurance as his retired father's income falls and several family policies still require premiums.
  • The speaker answers with his mother's insurance and policy-surrender experience and proposes a family discussion about surrender, stopping premiums, and the use of released funds.
  • The video compares policy benefits with a hypothetical investment that begins with NT$20,000 recovered from surrender, adds NT$10,000 annually for twenty years, then receives no further contributions and remains invested for another ten years.
  • According to the article relayed in the video, long-term care benefits may depend on several daily-living tests, an approximately ninety-day waiting period, and reassessment every six or twelve months.

Chapters

About 00:00:06 · Family policies and continuing premiums

The viewer describes policies bought by his father, the request that the children assume premiums after retirement, and his preference for investing in 00662.

About 00:01:13 · The speaker's surrender and investment experience

The speaker recalls his mother's work in insurance and later policy surrenders, then suggests ways to discuss the matter with the father and siblings.

About 00:03:10 · Eligibility tests for long-term care benefits

Relaying an article, the video lists eating, dressing, mobility, getting up, bathing, and toileting among possible assessment criteria.

About 00:05:01 · Waiting period and continuing reassessment

The conclusion mentions an observation period before payment and the possibility of recurring medical checks to confirm continued eligibility.

Related Topics

long-term care insurance, family insurance policies, policy surrender, 00662, long-term investing, disability assessment, insurance benefits, waiting period, retirement planning

This page was prepared with AI from selected portions of the video's audio to help readers understand the main topics. It may omit secondary material or contain transcription errors; the original video remains authoritative.

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