Russian Roulette With Your Life Insurance - What They Never Told You (Ep. 350)
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Mary Jo Irmen discusses the pitfalls of Universal Life insurance policies and their potential to financially harm families.
Real clients. Real collapsed policies. Why Universal Life might be quietly robbing your family. 👉 Follow Mary Jo Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MaryJoIrmen?sub_confirmation=1 What if the "permanent" life insurance you've been faithfully paying into for decades isn't actually permanent? Mary Jo pulls back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood products in the insurance industry — Universal Life (UL) policies. Using real client examples, she reveals how UL, Variable Life, and Indexed Universal Life (IUL) policies are built on a term chassis with increasing fees and charges that silently drain your cash value over time — and can leave your family with zero death benefit despite 30+ years of premium payments. In this episode, you'll learn: ➤ Why Universal Life is fundamentally different from Whole Life — and why that distinction matters enormously ➤ How rising fees and charges can cause a policy to collapse before you ever die ➤ The real story of a 90-year-old client whose policy showed $0 at age 98 — despite decades of payments ➤ What "guaranteed vs. non-guaranteed" actually means in your policy contract ➤ How to request an in-force illustration from your carrier and what red…
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