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The Need for Disability Insurance

December 10, 2011
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  • Workers’ rankings of the most valuable activities to achieve long-term financial security:
  • 40% of employees indicated protecting financial assets due to an unexpected event as a main concern.
    – The Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM, First Quarter 2009
  • 68% of employees surveyed said good employee benefits encourage them to work harder and perform better; 61% said good benefits keep them working for their current employer.
    – The Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM, 2010
  • Fewer than one in three (29%) U.S. workers have private long-term disability coverage
    – National Compensation Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2006
  • 33% of workers have access to long-term disability insurance through their jobs.
    – Employee Benefits Survey, The Bureau of Labor statistics, March 2009
  • Only 30% of American workers in private industry currently have access to employer-sponsored long-term disability insurance coverage.
    – National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in Private Industry in the United States, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 2006.
  • The odds of selling a product to a new customer are 15 percent, while the odds of selling to an existing customer are 50 percent.
    – Raymond Adamson, Cross-Sell to Success, Advisor Today, March 2005
  • The top reason producers are not selling IDI is because their clients do not ask about the product.
    – LIMRA International, “Producer Perspectives on Individual Disability Insurance”, 2009
  • Despite the fact that more than 70% of American households rely on two incomes to make ends meet, only 26% of Americans have any type of disability insurance.
    – Facts from LIMRA May 2010 Multimedia Fact Sheet, based on findings from LIMRA’s life insurance consumer studies.
  • Only 18% of consumers recall being approached about buying disability insurance – less than half as many as those being approached for life insurance.
    – Facts from LIMRA May 2010 Multimedia Fact Sheet, based on findings from LIMRA’s life insurance consumer studies.
  • Only 13% of small business owners have disability income insurance.
    – Facts from LIMRA May 2010 Multimedia Fact Sheet, based on findings from LIMRA’s life insurance consumer studies.
  • Who buys disability insurance? While men represent the majority of new sales, sales to females grew at a slightly faster rate than sales to males in 2008.
    Older age groups bought more policies in 2008, with an increase in both the 50-59 and 60+ age groups.
    – Facts from LIMRA May 2010 Multimedia Fact Sheet, based on findings from LIMRA’s life insurance consumer studies.

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