Group Benefits are Your Way of Saying Thanks

If you own a small business, you’ve likely spent years building your company. You’ve got repeat customers and created a great reputation. Your employees are loyal and your success depends on them. However, for one reason or another you may not offer a group benefits plan.

Here’s why you may want to reconsider: maintaining a healthy workplace and a healthy workforce are two critical pieces of every business plan, and group benefits can help achieve those dual objectives.

Perhaps, as time ticks on and medical needs grow, you’re recognizing that providing health coverage and financial protection is a meaningful way to thank your employees for their hard work. After all, one of the greatest gifts you can give your team is the confidence that comes with knowing many of their own medical needs – and those of their family members – are covered and that their loved ones can be protected financially in the future.

Health insurance covers the catastrophic event of an employee dependent on expensive prescription drugs along with travel insurance, ambulance and many other necessities not necessarily covered by provincial health plans. Not to mention the most important part being long-term disability benefits.
Let’s look at a hypothetical example that might ring true for you.

Bill is the 45-year old owner of an engineering firm. Due to changing government regulations, and a recent foray into the booming energy sector, Bill’s enterprise has grown from seven to more than 20 employees, and he’s opening two small satellite offices.

Over the past year, Bill has devoted his energy to winning new customers; hiring new staff; training new, young employees; opening offices; leasing equipment and vehicles; and meeting the many other demands of a growing company. During this period of growth, Bill has had less time to devote to his long-term employees.
For the past few months, some of Bill’s employees have left including a key person he depended on. These staff departures have happened in the midst of Bill’s efforts to hire talented people who will help support the growth of his firm. With plans for the future, he is now looking for new ways to attract and keep high-performing staff. Bill realized that he has to take steps to keep his employees-

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Are you financially ready for a major health event?

According to a major life insurance company’s survey, nearly half of Canadians facing a major health incident such as cancer or stroke are struggling financially as a result of their illness.
Many people realize that a serious health event could impact their personal finances, but only a handful actually set aside money for such an event.

Most feel that the health care system is going to look after them but a lot of the care you need at home and in recovery is not necessarily covered. Even though these are covered by company health plans, most people still have to pay a percentage of the cost themselves.

Thousands of people across the country are self-employed or employed with no benefit plan.
Disability insurance protects your income if you cannot work due to illness or accident. And critical illness insurance pays a lump sum if you are diagnosed with a serious illness covered in the policy. But even with this coverage, it may not be enough.

The cost of prescription drugs have gone through the roof. It is not uncommon to have a prescription drug cost of $80,000 a year or more, and many people are found to tap into retirement savings, borrow from loved ones or remortgage or sell their home to pay these costs.

Such choices add to peoples stress levels as they battle a major illness. But despite knowing this most Canadians feel good about their physical and emotional health which add to a false sense of security.
Life insurance has been designed to relieve some of this stress for pennies on the dollar, but it may be time to add health insurance as well.

Health insurance can protect you against the high cost of catastrophic drugs and the stress it causes.

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For a thorough evaluation of your insurance needs, please speak with our advisor.

Life & Health: Term Insurance Plan

Term insurance is short term life insurance insurance plan. Term insurance is at first the most affordable cost life insurance security that you can buy for individuals, families or businesses. It is intended to protect a wide range of short-term insurance needs such as income replacement, loan-mortgage-debt coverage, buy sell, & key person etc. Common premium structures for term products increase the amount of premium payable at the following intervals: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 years. Generally invested in term products are Term-10 and Term-20.  Term insurance is also offered with level pay periods and coverage periods of 65 and 75 years.  Term to age 100, or T-100 may sound as if it is a term insurance plan, is in fact a permanent insurance solution.  Term to 100 provides coverage at the same premium through to age 100, with no increase in price.
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