Well now you have to pay tax on your growth, right? And life insurance is unique in that you get to pull out your basis what you put in first totally tax-free. Free need to life insurance. However, if we want this 18,000 to continue to be tax-free, we can borrow against. Not from we’re not borrowing our own money.

Money’s not leaving our contract. Right? So we’re actually borrowing against our total cash value which you can see is one hundred eighty-nine thousand right before we start borrowing. Now see it says total net cash value?

That’s because our full 189 is continuing to grow and earn dividends and the guaranteed growth but they’re only giving us our net cash value because we have a lien against it.

So the insurance company is giving us a separate loan against it. And so our cash flow is going down as is our death benefit. And if we just go to the next page what we can see here is we bleed it all the way down to age 65 where we have very little cash value. Excuse me we have very little net cash flow.

You can see the total loan balances 303. Really we have like 3… 300000 and 14 the 303 plus 11 of cash value earning interest and dividends in here. But what’s happening is the loan is starting to cannibalize it.

What’s nice is certain insurance companies like this one have a little feature as you can see with the footnote here called overloan protection where they’re not going to let this thing cannibalize itself because if you can’t afford to pay any loan maintenance which at 85 you’re probably not going to be able to hold down a steady job.

You may not want to pay any loan interest. What’s going to happen with other policies is this thing could blow up on you unless you manage it. But this particular company says OK we’re just going to put eighty-one thousand dollars in a vault for your heirs. You actually still have some cash value that grows we’re just not going to let you take any more of it and we’re just calling it a day here.

So essentially you’ve taken a lot of income some as a withdraw some as a loan if you think about it you took almost 20 years of 18000, you took 19 years of 18000. And this little 13000 for putting twenty thousand dollars in.

And yet life insurance the whole time and there’s 81000 left behind. So that’s the first way. And the traditional paradigm way to take income from a life insurance policy.

So same exact policy right. The 20000 going in seven times, the death benefit grows right up until we elect the reduced paid-up option.

Now what you can see here is the death benefit stays relatively flat. It increases a little bit and the reason being is because in this scenario we’re taking our income as dividends in cash. Right?

So we’re just taking last year’s dividend. Last year’s dividend they’re dispersing it to us in cash. What’s nice about that is when you take dividends in cash.

Remember we elected this reduced paid-up option? So this death benefit is contractually paid up. It can not go down, right? We’re locked into this death benefit. Also, we’re not taking any of the guaranteed interest, any of the guaranteed cash flow growth. All we’re stripping out is non guaranteed dividends.

And this is showing it at today’s low dividend interest rate. If dividends are higher in the future this number could be higher if they’re lower. It could be lower. But this guaranteed cash value guaranteed to grow on the schedule.

Now we don’t know if it will arrive at this number because all this prior data is based on today’s dividend interest rate numbers. It could be higher if things get higher. But what I want you to see is these two columns whoops lost my little magic pen here. These two columns these two columns. This is guaranteed growth and this is a guaranteed death benefit.

So if there’s a situation where somebody wants to make sure they have this emergency reserve fund, they want to make sure they have a certain amount of death benefit for heirs and still take income on without messing with these guaranteed elements over here. Right?

Obviously, this income will fluctuate with the current dividend rates. But the other two will not and if we just scroll down here you can see even with the dividend interest rate staying the same.

Because we’re illustrating it at today’s dividend interest rate because your cash value and your death benefit are both increasing. This entitles you to a bigger cut of the dividend pool in the future so you get this nice natural growing income stream from dividends and cash, which is very very nice to have.

So we like to see this when people just want to maintain death benefit and supplement their income like somebody who’s supplementing a defined benefit pension or somebody who has other sources of income and wants to bleed down their more tax non-friendly things like retirement plans or taxable stocks.

If they want to bleed those down and keep this safe money safe. This is a great way to do it. So take a look at what’s possible with your own policy by scheduling a meeting with us here and we hope to talk to you soon.

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