Life & Health Learning Center

What to understand before you protect your income, your family, or your business.

Plain answers on life insurance, business and family planning, and health coverage, including the tradeoffs people get wrong. Written and reviewed by Richard Sweet.

Guides

Start-to-finish walkthroughs for the decisions that matter most.

Guides

How Much Life Insurance Do You Actually Need?

The right amount of life insurance replaces your income, clears your debts, and funds your goals for the years your family depends on you. Here is how to calculate a real number.

Coverage explained

Plain-language breakdowns of what each coverage does and where it stops.

Coverage explained

What Disability Insurance Covers, and Why Your Paycheck Is the Asset to Protect

Your ability to earn is probably your largest asset, and the one most people never insure. Disability insurance replaces income if illness or injury stops you from working.

Comparisons

This versus that, so you can decide without second-guessing it later.

Comparisons

Term vs. Whole Life: Which One Fits Your Situation

Term and whole life are not competitors; they solve different problems. Term covers a temporary need cheaply; whole life is permanent and builds cash value. Here is how to choose.

Common questions

Straight answers to what people ask us most.

Common questions

Is My Life Insurance at Work Enough?

Employer life insurance is a nice benefit and a poor foundation. It is usually small, tied to your job, and not yours to keep. Here is how to tell whether you have a gap.

Common questions

New to Medicare? Start Here

Medicare has several parts and a lot of choices, and the first decisions can follow you for years. Here is a plain-language map of the pieces. Confirm current rules and dates at Medicare.gov.

Strategy

Moves that protect what you are building over time.

Strategy

Life Insurance for Business Owners: Key Person and Buy-Sell Basics

For business owners, life insurance protects more than the family. Key person coverage protects the business, and buy-sell funding keeps ownership stable. Here is how the pieces fit.

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