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2026-02-21
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What is a Savings Plan? | Canara HSBC Life
The savings plan that you choose should cover your specific needs and have the criteria that you will meet to ensure maximum returns. It should suit your particular economic background so that you will regularly reach your objective without missing any premium payments.
It would be best if you also considered economic factors like inflation and a rise in costs for education, marriage, and similar enormous additional costs. Ideally, there should be an incremental interest that will ensure that your family will get covered securely.
An ideal savings plan should also provide a compensation/death benefit that can take care of your family if you die an untimely death. There should be additional drivers if your death were accidental or due to the sudden onset of a dangerous disease.
Essential Eligibility Requirements for Investing in a Savings Plan
Entry Age
Your entry age is the minimum age at which any person will be allowed to open and work with an independent savings bank account. Individual banks will keep it given their risk management systems, which is why there is usually a fixed limit in terms of age. Ideally, a person above 18 years of age would be a perfect candidate for a savings account, primarily because a child below eighteen cannot legally sign documents or provide consent. But there is always the option to start an account in your name and later give the child ownership.
| Plan Options | Minimum Entry Age | Maximum Entry Age |
|---|---|---|
| Guaranteed Savings Option | 0 years | 60 years |
| Guaranteed Savings with Double Protection Option | 18 years | 60 years |
| Guaranteed Savings with Premium Protection Option | 18 years | 55 years |
As seen above, there are different plan options for which the upper and lower entry age limits vary.
For the first guaranteed savings option, the minimum entry age is 0 years. This means that you can take an account for your child as soon as they are born and begin saving up right from that moment. This will ensure that they will get a more considerable sum of money by growing up. The maximum limit for this plan is sixty years, beyond which it is unlikely that the person will survive for that long.
The guaranteed savings plan with double protection option is available only to 18 years of age or above. This means that they will have to consent to and open the bank account. The upper limit to this savings plan is 60 years of age.
The age calculated is taken to be how old you or your nominee is as of the last birthday.
Maturity Age
The maturity age is the age at which the plan matures, and the nominee is eligible for the amount of money. The maturity date is when the total life insurance policy money is payable to the nominee by the insurance company. This can be either death or contract stipulation. It also implies that the cash value and death benefit amount are now equal. You will no longer have to pay any premiums, and most plans cover you for a few years after the maturity age as well.
Here is a tabulated list of the maturity age for Canara HSBC Life Insurance:
| Plan Options | Minimum Maturity Age | Maximum Maturity Age |
|---|---|---|
| Guaranteed Savings Option | 18 years | 75 years |
| Guaranteed Savings with Double Protection Option | 28 years | 75 Years |
| Guaranteed Savings with Premium Protection Option | 28 years | 75 Years |
As you can see from above, in the case of the first plan option – the guaranteed savings option, the minimum maturity is 18 years of age. Using this plan, you can start saving when the child is born until they are of 18 years of age, at which point the plan can mature and provide him or her with a specific amount of money.
The minimum duration of the remaining plans in a decade is why it is 28 years minimum age maturity for both the guaranteed savings with double protection option and premium protection open.
The maximum maturity age for all of the above plans is 75 years of age. This is usually the age at which most Indians retire or have already retired without a stable income. Since the average life expectancy of an Indian citizen is also around that age, this is an ideal upper limit for maturity.
Premium Paying Term
The total number of years you have to pay the premium determines your policy's length and coverage. This is different from the available policy term, which will make use of the available amount compounded from all your premiums to cover decades more from the date of your age of maturity. It is understood that the more extended coverage you have after your maturity age, the higher the amount of premium you will have to pay during the premium payment term, especially if the latter period is stretched over a shorter time.
| Premium Payment Term (in years) | Available Policy Term (in years) |
|---|---|
| 5 | 10,15 |
| 7 | 12,15 |
| 10 | 15,20 |
If you choose to pay your premium payment for 5 years, you can have an available policy term for either a decade or an extended amount of 5 years more. If you choose 7 years as a premium payment term, you can benefit from 12 and 15 years. If you pay your premiums for 10 years, the available policy term can be extended to a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 20 years. The availability of this policy term will depend on the maturity age, in the sense that it should be within a lower limit of 18 and an upper limit of 75 where both limits are inclusive.
Premium Payment Mode and Modal Factors
The modal premium of any policy is the sum you will have to pay for each premium. The more considerable the amount for each modal premium, the fewer times you will have to make payments throughout the policy duration.
Regardless of this distribution of money throughout the policy, the long-term benefits remain the same. The way the money is spread throughout will depend entirely on your choices and how much you can afford to pay each time and how long you have to secure your family's future. This flexibility allows people from diverse economic backgrounds to secure saving plans.
The modal factor is used to convert annual premiums into smaller premiums that are paid with more frequency. For example, if the modal factor is 0.09, we can multiply it with the annual premium to figure out how much you will have to pay each month. The policyholder can always choose to change the premium payment mode subject to the modal factor application.
| Mode | Mode Factors |
|---|---|
| Annual | 1.00 |
| Half-yearly | 0.51 |
| quarterly | 0.26 |
| Monthly | 0.09 |
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