Importance of Guaranteed Savings Plan during a Pandemic

Like everyone, you too might be having some important goals that drive you like providing the best education to your children, financial security to your family or getting your children married. But how will they be fulfilled if something happens to you? Who will fulfill them? A Guaranteed savings plan comes to your rescue. In such times of uncertainty, it is essential to secure the future of your loved ones so that these goals get fulfilled even if something happens to you, and your loved ones don't have to suffer. With a guaranteed savings plan, your family's future is secure.

Financial Lessons from the Pandemic

The global health pandemic is one of the biggest crises of the century. This pandemic has shown a mirror to everyone, exposing all the mistakes we were making till now. Around 122 million people in India lost their jobs and around 53% of businesses in the country have been affected severely. Most of the people facing such issues never focused on planning their money well and instead resorted to reckless spending, without thinking about the future.

If they had saved their money through a savings plan and various other policies, they would have been in a much better position now. Some of the lessons this pandemic has taught us about financial planning are:

• Create a long-term financial plan

  This pandemic has made us realize that nothing is permanent. Our world is full of uncertainties that can severely affect us, and things rarely go according to our plans. Financial crisis can happen to anyone. Hence, long-term financial planning is important. Financial planning, while keeping your long-term goals, will not only build up your wealth but also help you weather future financial crises.

  However, be flexible in your approach. Financial planning is not a once in a lifetime thing; it is a continuous learning curve. Your goals will also keep re-aligning to your financial circumstances. Hence, make sure your current plan is in line with your goals through continuous evaluation. Regular evaluation of your investments will lead to long term benefits and help you mitigate risks

• Keep aside emergency capital to be used in times of emergencies

  One of the best ways to ensure financial security during hard times is to keep aside emergency capital that can be used in need. Setting aside, emergency capital can not only help you save for a crisis but also aid in achieving your long-term goals. People who have their own business or those who have just entered the job market, should be more focused towards building an emergency fund because they might have to go through a financial crisis anytime. Thus, building their wealth steadily will lead to financial stability.

  One of the crucial factors to keep in mind while building emergency capital is guaranteed pay-out. Canara HSBC Life Insurance Company’s guaranteed savings plan, you can build emergency capital and provide financial protection to your family in any unforeseen circumstances. It also gives an increment in your wealth with guaranteed additional sums added to your policy every year according to the plan chosen by you.

• Investing in a Guaranteed Savings Plan is essential

  This pandemic has shown us that unfortunate events can affect anyone irrespective of their socio-economic background. Last year, none of us knew that something like this was coming our way, but it came and created an upheaval in our lives.

  Everyone is equally affected. Hence, it's better to stay prepared instead of freaking out in times of trouble. Now we are aware that a savings plan is an essential commodity too and not just a tax saving option.

  Guaranteed savings plan provides full financial security in addition to tax benefits. The capital can be availed as a lump sum payment that ensures that your family's financial needs are met even in an unfortunate event.

What is a Guaranteed Savings Plan?

A Guaranteed savings plan refers to a non-endowment, non-participating life insurance plan. It helps you protect your life goals from casualties through a life insurance cover and creates a corpus by offering a guaranteed lump sum at maturity. These benefits are provided only if all the premiums are paid on time. Discontinuity in premium payments might lead to the cancellation of the savings plan policy.

It also facilitates regular savings and thus, helps you reach your goals faster. Also, it ensures that if something happens to you due to unforeseen circumstances, your family will be financially secure. The objectives you had for your family and loved ones will still be fulfilled without any hindrance.

Features of a Guaranteed Savings Plan

Some of the features of the guaranteed savings plan are:

• Premium has to be paid for only a limited period even though life cover is provided for the full term.
• Guaranteed benefits payable on maturity if all due premiums have been paid.
• Multiple policy term options are available.
• Complete freedom to choose a payment term that suits you the best.
• High Premium Booster provided to ensure that you get extra benefits if you make a higher premium commitment.
• Enhanced Protection provided for the family.
• Through payment of lump-sum benefits on death, life insurance protection is provided.
• Not necessary to pay remaining premiums on death and guaranteed benefits are payable on maturity (under Guaranteed Savings with Premium Protection Option).
• Tax benefits provided under Section 80C and Section 10(10D), as per the Income Tax Act, 1961 as amended from time to time.

Canara HSBC Life Insurance Company’s Guaranteed Savings Plan

Canara HSBC Life Insurance Company provides an excellent guaranteed savings plan to assist you in managing your finances. You can choose the plan that you feel will fulfill all your objectives and help you reach your desired goal in the given time. Each plan comes with different benefits. The benefits provided with every plan are detailed below for your understanding.

Guaranteed Savings Option and Guaranteed Savings with Double Protection Option:

• Maturity Benefit

  The insured will get a guaranteed sum assured on maturity, guaranteed yearly addition, and guaranteed loyalty on the policy's maturity. The policy will terminate on the payment of these benefits, and no further benefit will be payable.

• Death Benefit
  If there is an unfortunate death of the life insured during the policy term, given that policy is in force, the benefit will be given to the nominee. The benefits include the sum assured on death and cumulative guaranteed yearly addition as on date of death. An extra amount equal to the ADB sum assured will be paid if you have chosen Guaranteed Savings with Double Protection Option of the Life Assured death occurs due to an accident. After paying these benefits, the policy will terminate, and no further benefit will be payable.

Guaranteed Savings with Premium Protection Option:

• Maturity Benefit

  The insured will get a guaranteed sum assured on maturity, guaranteed yearly addition, and guaranteed loyalty on the policy's maturity. The policy will terminate on the payment of these benefits, and no further benefit will be payable.

• Death Benefit

  If there is the unfortunate death of the life assured during the policy term, given that policy is in force, the benefit will be given to the nominee. The benefits include the sum assured on death, remaining future premiums need not be paid, and the policy will be in force for the remaining policy the term, the policy will continue to accrue guaranteed yearly additions. After paying these benefits, the policy will terminate, and no further benefit will be payable.

Some other benefits included with all types of saving plans are:

• Loan Facility

  After your policy acquires its surrender value, you can also avail of the loan facility in this plan to meet your contingent needs. The minimum amount of loan that can be availed in this plan is Rs 20,000, and the maximum amount is 80% of the overall surrender value at the time of taking the loan. A loan can be availed for in-force policies only.

• High Premium Booster

  According to the table given below the necessary sum assured available for a given premium will be increased by high premium booster %. if the annualized premium is more than Rs 30,000 (the upper limit of the first premium brand in the table given below). The High Premium Booster % will be applicable as per the table below:

This global pandemic is a wake-up call for all of us to seriously consider financial planning so that we don't have to face financial troubles if something like this happens to our family or us. These tough times need to be handled with patience and proper planning. Managing your money well will prepare you to navigate through bad times with ease. You never know what might happen during this pandemic, so it is better to be prepared for everything.