MassMutual Gives Free Life Insurance

The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance or MassMutual company is starting a program in which they will give out one billion dollars in free life insurance coverage. The first of this program will start in the Lakewood area by giving free fifty thousand dollar ten year policies to working parents in the area.

The philanthropic program of MassMutual is called LifeBridge and it is designed to give insurance policies, of which they have already done twenty thousand nationally, to parents who are working and eligible so that their children's education will be paid for in the event that they should die. The policies are typically given to families where the children may not be able to complete schooling as a result of a parent or guardians death.

MassMutual, based in Springfield Massachusetts, is solely responsible for making all the annual premium payments which can be between $150 and $200. The parents who qualify for this program pay no fees whatsoever for the life insurance policy. In the past four years the company has also paid out on two claims.

So far the company has issued out 6,200 policies to qualified parents and their children which provided families with over three hundred million in free life insurance coverage and the company plans to increase their current numbers in the near future.

Applicants to the program need to be U.S. residents between the ages of nineteen and forty-two. They need to be either full or part time employed and have a combined family income between ten thousand and forty thousand a year as proved by recent tax returns.