VIATICAL & LIFE SETTLEMENT BROKER
ARE YOU A CANDIDATE FOR A LIFE SETTLEMENT?
A life settlement is a valuable financial option for policyholders who no longer have a need for their life insurance policies. Instead of lapsing or surrendering a life insurance policy, qualified consumers can now cash in a life insurance policy in a secondary market to receive the fair market value for their asset. We are experts in the life insurance settlement market, and we help simplify the complex process for our clients.
Founded in 2000, Welcome Funds is a professional life settlement broker that is licensed to represent policy owners & negotiate the highest offer from the marketplace on their behalf. Our life settlement company has helped our clients secure more than $1 Billion for the sale of their life insurance policies. It's fast, easy and free to determine if your life insurance policy is eligible for a life settlement. It can seem like a complicated process, but when you have the experts at Welcome Funds on your side, navigating the life insurance settlement market can be easy.
OUR BUYERS COMPETE TO PURCHASE YOUR POLICY
Welcome Funds negotiates directly in the secondary market, where state-licensed financial institutions compete to purchase life insurance policies. Our experienced life settlement negotiation team then creates competition amongst these buyers through an auction process to ensure that the highest offer is secured for our clients. We are experts in both viatical and life settlements.
Over the past 24 years, we have been entrusted by thousands of Americans and their financial advisors to represent their best interests in the life settlement process. Our life settlement team has successfully negotiated over 36,000 life settlement offers on behalf of policyholders. With one application, you gain access to multiple buyers and receive several offers — that's what we like to call Life Settlements. Simplified. Find out more about how Welcome Funds can help you sell your life insurance policy for cash.
Welcome Funds Frequently Asked Questions
A life settlement enables qualified life insurance policyholders to convert their life insurance coverage into cash by selling it to a state-licensed financial institution. The sale of the policy is similar to the sale of a home or car, all rights, title, and future interest in the asset are legally transferred from the seller to the buyer. The buyer is then responsible for all future premium payments and owns the rights to the future death benefit. These buyers are part of a secondary market for life insurance policies that developed due to the limited options offered by life insurance companies for those consumers who have had changing life circumstances or who could no longer afford their premiums.
Life settlements give consumers a choice, when previously only limited options existed which were dictated by the life insurance company. Now, thanks to the Life Settlement Industry, policyholders have the choice to sell their asset for a fair market value, instead of lapsing a policy with no value received or surrendering it for an amount below fair market value. The life settlement option allows the seller of the life insurance policy to use the proceeds to help pay for long-term care needs, living expenses, or anything else they desire.
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A viatical settlement is a financial transaction in which a lump sum cash payment is made to the owner of a life insurance policy in exchange for the sale of ownership and beneficiary rights to the life insurance policy. Typically, this term is used for transactions involving only terminally ill insureds who have a life expectancy of less than 24 months.
Are Viatical Settlements Taxable?
For those insureds, the viatical settlement proceeds may be considered tax-free. The viatical settlement option allows policy owners to use the proceeds of the sale to help pay for medical bills, living expenses, or anything else they choose.
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The life settlement transaction itself is simple. The policy owner and insured must complete an application, which includes important transactional disclosures and authorizations. A copy of the policy under consideration for sale as well as a premium illustration and the insured's medical records must be obtained. These documents can be requested by Welcome Funds and are required in order to evaluate the policy and begin the official life settlement offer negotiation process. There are no out-of-pocket fees to receive an offer and there is absolutely no obligation to sell the policy. Here is a quick summary of the step-by-step life settlement process:
- Complete our FREE Life Settlement Qualifier to determine eligibility, then speak with a Client Care Advocate to receive a Free Appraisal
- Review important disclosures to ensure you understand the process and requirements
- Complete our formal application
- Our life settlement experts will then expedite the requests for the necessary documents required to prepare your case for market submission
- Your life settlement case is then submitted to our National Buyer Network
- Offers and declines are received from buyers and negotiations are conducted to maximize the offers
- A final bid is secured when the highest bidder is identified
- Policyholder accepts or declines the bid. If acceptable, the closing process begins
- Closing documents are prepared by the buyer and sent to the policyholder and insured for signatures
- Policy title, values and other pertinent information is verified
- Official transfer of ownership and beneficiary rights are completed with the life insurance company
- Funds are released from escrow to the policyholder