When you purchase a simplified issue final expense policy, it lasts your lifetime. As long as you keep up with your monthly premium payments, it stays permanent. You’re covered, then, until you pass away.
Your simplified issue final expense policy is focused on the death benefit. This is a sum of money issued when you, as the policyholder, pass away. You come into a contract with your insurance provider—you agree to pay the premiums, and they decide to give you a death benefit in exchange.
Since you won’t be around to receive the death benefit, you get to choose who you would like to receive it, called your beneficiaries. They’ll use it on your behalf for your end-of-life costs, particularly funeral arrangement costs and other things, such as credit card payments, estate taxes, and anything else you choose.
A simplified issue policy death benefit can range anywhere from $2,000 to $35,000. You and your beneficiaries can ultimately decide to use this money on anything you like.