Underwriting
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More about qualified money & LTC

Last week, I started the FWF conversation talking about qualified money and IRA maximization. The thing about IRA max is that it is a leverage play – a planning tool while living and insurable. (remember, this conversation is for non-Roth accounts.) But, what happens if the planning windows is slammed shut because the IRA owner… Continue reading
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ASC & IRA Max – something new

IRA maximization is one of the first funding strategies that I was introduced to more than 3 decades ago when I was first entered the insurance industry as a career agent in southern New Hampshire. According to the Congressional Research Service, the Federal Reserve’s Financial Accounts of the United States report said that as of… Continue reading
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Changes to PUI

Another day goes by and OneAmerica Financial has another enhancement to the Care Solutions asset-base long term care line of business. No, there is no product change to announce. The most recent change is to the Pre Underwriting Inquiry process. A Pre-Underwriting Inquiry (PUI) is the informal inquiry program for the Care Solutions products where you can… Continue reading
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Annuity Care Underwriting & Prescreening

Earlier this month on Coffee Break, Niki Johnson shared the underwriting requirements for the Annuity Care products. If you have not taken time to watch the episode, please do. As Niki shared, we do underwrite our products. With Annuity Care products, the underwriting is never more than a phone interview, an MIB check, and a… Continue reading
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Underwriting Rated Cases

Last week, I made a bold statement that EVERYONE wants the “layup” business where the clients are in good health and can be moved through underwriting based upon a phone interview. It’s true – anyone can do that. What is also true is that OneAmerica chooses to offer solutions to more people because OneAmerica is… Continue reading
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OneAmerica Underwriting Advantage

Here is a general statement about underwriting in the linked benefit / hybrid / asset-based long term care space … EVERYONE is willing to work with clients who are table 4 or better; EVERYONE offers streamlined underwriting (in one form or another); and EVERYONE offers products for people 75 and younger. ONLY ONEAMERICA offers you… Continue reading
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Less Than Perfect Client To Underwrite

This past week on LTC Coffee Break, we spoke with OneAmerica’s Care Solutions underwriting directors Diane Carpenter and David Gorman. If you didn’t have a chance to watch, check it out. For additional LTC Coffee Break episodes, you should go to the LTCCB Channel. Every Tuesday at 10 am, we release a new episode exclusively… Continue reading
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Pre-Work For Underwriting

This past week on LTC Coffee Break, we spent a little extra time talking about some of the tools that OneAmerica makes available to you in an effort to improve the underwriting experience. If you didn’t have a chance to watch, check it out. For additional LTC Coffee Break episodes, you should go to the… Continue reading
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Poo Wee or PUI

This week’s LTC Coffee Break was a full edition that featured Phyllis Shelton. It was a wide ranging conversation that included conversations about our responsibility as advisors to include long term care funding in our planning conversations, her thoughts on asset-based long term care, her thoughts on plan designs, and a bunch more. This week’s… Continue reading
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A Plug for Asset Based LTC

I don’t claim to be unbiased. I admit that I have an agenda. I want you to address your client’s long term care funding needs using the products that my company (OneAmerica) produces and distributes (Asset Care and Annuity Care). That is my agenda – I want your business. That is why I share ideas… Continue reading
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Some Tools For You

As you know, I am on vacation this week. Actually, it will be no vacation as I am moving from our 200 year old historic home in Somers, CT to a newer home a few miles away. (Shameless pitch – if you know of anyone looking for a historic home that wants to live in… Continue reading
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OneAmerica Resources

Earlier this week, we hosted our first virtual Care Solutions University of 2021. If you are unfamiliar with Care Solutions University, it is immersion training for the OneAmerica Care Solutions suite of asset-based long term care products and services. Last year, due to the pandemic, Care Solutions University moved to the virtual realm from an… Continue reading

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