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Is the Dependants’ Protection Scheme important for both couples with kids and couples without kids?
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Pang Zhe Liang
08 Dec 2020
Fee-Based Financial Advisory Manager at Financial Alliance Pte Ltd (IFA Firm)
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Hi there,
It depends on what you mean by baseline. The objective of health insurance is different from insurance like DPS. Health insurance is one of the most fundamental insurance everyone should have but if we are talking about coverage sum assured benefits, DPS will be one of the first things people should potentially have. It's a baseline partially because it offers a relatively decent coverage for the premiums you're paying. Also, the premiums can be paid using CPF. So in terms of coverage sum assured benefits, it will be one of the first line of defence.
The basic coverage of DPS covers for death, TPD and TI. So these are relatively important for people with dependents, whether it's for a partner or children if you'll like to leave a love gift for them. This is especially important also if you have running liabilities And in the unfortunate event of death, your partner need not tank the whole liability by him/herself.
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There are different layers of baseline that we need to look at. For instance, healthcare insurance is responsible to take care of your hospital bills. As a result, it ignores the fact that you still need to put food on the table. With this in mind, a term insurance policy like Dependants' Protection Scheme works to that end. You may wish to read more about how it works here: https://www.blog.pzl.sg/dependants-protection-i...
Regardless of whether you are couple with or without kids, Dependants' Protection Scheme gives your family up to S$46,000 in the event of your death, or total permanent disability. For this purpose, its importance will depend on your partner's or kids' answer - will they be able to live life slightly better and not struggle as much with this additional S$46,000 payout?
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