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Income Loss Replacement Plan

Guest post by: Gurmeet Bagga

Article Overview: Setting up income repacement plan will protect the income of the key employee or shareholder of th business and hep the sustainabity if the business

Income Loss Replacement Plan

You are the owner and manager of a business. Your management team is vital to the long-term success of your business. If any one of them becomes disabled, your business may be at risk. You want to ensure they receive adequate protection in the unfortunate event of disability. You feel that your group Long Term Disability (LTD) plan does not insure them for the amount of disability coverage they need. You want to provide them with higher disability benefits cost effectively. An Alternative - the Income Loss Replacement Plan.The Income Loss Replacement Plan (ILRP) is a cost effective way for you and your key managers to receive the disability protection needed. By implementing an ILRP you are able to provide your key employees with more disability protection at a lower cost. This also provides an attractive and valued benefit that will help your company retain key employees. The coverage is better than under your group plan, with fewer exclusions and limitations. How does the Income Loss Replacement Plan work? You select the group of key employees to be covered under the ILRP and apply for an individual disability policy on each employee. Your corporation will own each policy. The new individual policies will be grouped together by means of a board resolution. This allows your company to deduct the premiums. The premiums are not a taxable benefit to the employee. Disability benefits are paid directly to the employee and are taxable. However, the ILRP offers higher benefit amounts to compensate for the tax payable.

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Article Tags: Disabity Insurance, Income replacement plan, Short term and long term disabilty



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