Edelweiss Life - Zindagi Protect Plus

About Plan

Edelweiss Life - Zindagi Protect Plus is a life insurance plan designed to provide protection to you and your family. It gives your life an all-round protection with the multiple benefits offered to take care of your ever-changing responsibilities as well as increased cost of living. It also ensures that the family remains well protected if and when the main bread earner of the family isnt around.

Advantages

1. Secure your familys financial future through life insurance cover
2. Option to avail life insurance cover up to age 100
3. Option to choose between Life Cover option OR Return of Premium option for all round protection. If Life Cover Option chosen, the following Additional Benefits are available:
I. Option to select, Better Half Benefit by paying additional premiums, to provide life cover for the spouse and thus, enhanced financial security for the family even in the absence of the main bread earner
II. Option to select Childs Future Protect Benefit by paying additional premiums to increase your life cover till your child turns 25 years old during which you may have higher responsibilities
III. Option to select Premium Break benefit, by paying additional premium, which enables you to skip up to 8 premiums depending on the premium payment term, while you enjoy the benefits of your plan.
4. Flexibility to choose limited pay or regular pay premium payment options.

5. Avail a discount of 6% on First Year Premium if the medical examination is completed within 7 days from the date of login
6. Option to receive all your premiums paid back at a specific point during the term of the policy for Life Cover Option with limited pay through the Special Exit Benefit

Benefits

1.Childs Future Protect Benefit
Under this Additional Benefit, you have an option to increase your life cover by choosing an Additional Sum Assured (10% to 100% of Base Sum Assured, in multiples of 10%). This option has to be selected only at the inception of the policy and only if you have a child between age 0 year to 18 years (age last birthday). The additional life cover under Childs Future Protect Benefit will be available only during the Childs Future Protect Benefit Coverage Term, which is equal to 25 minus Childs Age (age last birthday) at the inception of the Policy.
After the Childs Future Protect Benefit Coverage Term has expired, cover for Base Sum Assured and other Additional Benefit, if opted will continue for the remaining Policy Term.

2.Better Half Benefit
This Additional Benefit provides cover for the Spouse of the Life insured only after the death of the Life Insured. This benefit gets triggered on the death of the Life Insured.
Better Half Benefit can be selected only at the policy inception, if you are married, your Spouse is not elder/younger than you by more than 10 years and provided that the policy is accepted at standard rates at policy issuance. Only one Spouse will be covered under this benefit.

3.Premium Break Benefit
Under this Additional Benefit, there are Premium Break/s available to the policy after completion of certain number of fixed policy years. Once a Premium Break is exercised in the policy, the policyholder is not required to pay due premiums for the next 12 months. During the Premium Break, the policy will be in-force and the cover will continue and in case of death of the Life Insured during this period, applicable Death Benefit will be paid and the policy will terminate.

Entry Age Details

Minimim

Life Cover option

Life Insured: 18 years
Spouse: 18 Years
Child: 0 Years
Return of Premium option
Life Insured: 18 years
Maximim
Life Cover option
PPT - 5/7/10/15/20: 65 years
PPT - To Age 60: 50 Years
PPT - Regular Pay (RP): 55 years

For Child: 18 Years For Life Insured if Childs Future Protect Benefit Opted: 50 Years

Return of Premium option
PPT - 5/7/10/15/20: 60 years
PPT - To Age 60: 50 Years
PPT - RP: 50 years

Maturity Age Details

Minimum Maturity Age: years. Maximum Maturity Age depends on the Premium Payment Term(PPT)

Policy Term

Minimim
Life Cover option

5 pay, 7 pay: 10
10 Pay: 15
15 Pay: 20
20 Pay: 25
To Age 60: (65 - Entry Age of Life Insured)
Regular Pay: 5
Return of Premium option

5 pay, 7 pay: 10
10 Pay: 15
15 Pay: 20
20 Pay: 25
To Age 60: (65 - Entry Age of Life Insured)
Regular Pay: 10

Maximim
Life Cover option
Return of Premium option
100 years - age at entry of Life Insured

Premium Payment Term

Regular Pay (RP): Same as Policy term
Limited Pay (LP): 5/7/10/15/20
Limited Pay To Age 60: (60 - Entry Age of Life Insured)

Premium payment mode

Yearly
Half-yearly
Quarterly
Monthly

Sum Assured Details

Minimum - Rs.50,00,000

Maximum -No Limit, Subject to board approved underwriting policy

Death Benefits

Death Benefit
Plan Options: Life Cover option, Return of Premium option
If the Life Insured dies before the Maturity Date while the Policy is In-Force, we will pay
Sum Assured on Death
The Sum Assured on Death at any point in time shall be the highest of:
10 times of Annualised Premium# at the policy commencement; OR
Any absolute amount assured to be paid on death; OR
10 times the Annual Premium* at the policy commencement

Maturity Benefits

Life Cover option: No Maturity benefit is payable under this plan option
Return of Premium option: If you survive till the end of the Policy term, we will pay, Sum Assured on Maturity and the Policy will terminate without any further benefit.
Sum Assured on Maturity will be equal to 100% of Total Premiums Paid

Policy Loans

Life Cover Option: Not Applicable.
Return of Premium Option:
Policy loan is available once the policy acquires surrender value. Maximum loan amount available will be, 80% of present value of Reduced Paid-up Sum Assured on Maturity calculated at 7.25% p.a. Interest will be charged on the outstanding loan amount at a rate declared by the Company as and when there is a change in the three-year (tenure) SBI MCLR e.g., if the three-year (tenure) SBI MCLR gets revised w.e.f. 15th April 2024 then the revised rate will be applicable from 15th April 2024 till further revision in the loan interest rate. The current (15 Sep 2024) rate of interest on policy loan is 9.60% per annum. If the loan interest rate is revised, the same interest rate will be applied to both existing and new loan from the date of revision. The interest rate methodology is reviewable with prior approval from Authority.

Claim & Solvency Ratio

Claim Ratio	Solvency Ratio
99% (2023-24)	2% (March 2024)

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