There are certain things that we, as parents, do when we have children. After all, our lives have changed considerably and now we are responsible for lives other than our own. We may move our residence to somewhere safer or to an area that has better schools; we research those activities and day care situations in which we may enroll our kids and look at them from all angles to ensure that they are appropriate for our kids and will ultimately meet their needs, and we set about making financial choices that will protect our children in a variety of circumstances – including savings accounts, college funds, and life insurance.

Life insurance is especially important, we consider, because this will financially cover our kids should we die while they are still dependent upon us. We carefully choose guardians for our children and make sure that the life insurance money is guarded and carefully administered by a trusted executor. But we seldom – unfortunately – give the same thought to what would happen to our children if we were still here but unable to provide for them financially; a predicament that many families find themselves in when they are without disability insurance.

Disability income insurance is provided to protect its policyholders in the event of an accident or injury that leaves them disabled and unable to return to work for a particular period of time (that period which is defined by the policy). Households that are dependent upon their incomes – and less face it, who isn’t – must look to protect their interests if they were to lose one or multiple incomes. Disability income insurance accounts for this loss and pays out to the policyholder the money that will keep their household afloat during this difficult time.

In the next post, we’ll delver further into how disability insurance can protect families with children.

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