WARNING! This form permanently transfers ownership of your FEGLI insurance to another individual, trustee, or corporation (however, premiums continue to be withheld from your salary/annuity). An assignment is irrevocable, and cannot be changed later. DO NOT USE THIS FORM if you only wish to designate a beneficiary to receive your life insurance. Instead, use the available designation of beneficiary form .
For more information about assignments and designations of beneficiary, see the FEGLI Booklet on Assignments , and Designation of Beneficiary and Order of Precedence .
FEGLI enrollees use this form to assign ownership of their life insurance coverage to another person, firm, or trust; and assignees use the form to reassign the coverage.
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Discussing life insurance information with your family or loved ones is important, but it doesn't always happen. After a loved one's passing, you might be unsure of whether they have a life insurance policy. To submit a life insurance claim, however, you'll need to know which life insurance company holds the person's policy.
A service offered by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) can help anyone who could be a policy beneficiary locate the person's policy. Filling out the NAIC's form online submits the person's information to insurance companies for a record search, and the service can help you locate the person's policy.
The service allows searches both for life insurance policies and annuities, which are insurance plans purchased to provide future retirement income. The NAIC provides this search service for free.
It's worth noting that this search service shouldn't be your first step in the process. Before submitting a search, the NAIC recommends checking the person's bank statements for any indication of payments towards a policy, checking safe deposit boxes for information, or other financial records if available. If you find information on their policy, this tool won't be necessary — you can then contact the insurance company directly.
If you've checked around and still can't find any information, the policy locator service could help.
Gathering necessary information.
Before hunting down a life insurance policy, having these items and pieces of information on hand will make the process easier:
If you know the insurance company your loved one had a policy with, contact their insurance agent or the company. The insurer may require proof you're the beneficiary, so be prepared to provide your driver's license, Social Security number, and the policyholder's death certificate.
If you don't know the insurance company your deceased loved one has a policy with, the NAIC's Life Insurance Policy Locator Service can help with your search.
The NAIC's tool sends the information on your loved one to insurance and annuity companies across the US. These companies then search their records to see if there's a policy on file for that person.
Only people who may be policy beneficiaries or executors of an estate can submit a request to the NAIC. Any information found by the search can only be passed along if the person submitting the request is the policy's beneficiary or is authorized to receive information.
Most of the information needed to complete the form is available on the person's death certificate. If you don't already have this document, you can order one. The process for getting this can vary from state to state, but the funeral home the family worked with or the county's vital records department is a good place to start.
After getting a death certificate, you can start filling in information on the locator service's form, which can be found on the NAIC's website.
The information you submit will be passed along to insurance companies for a search. If any results are found, the company will contact you directly by email as long as you are a beneficiary or otherwise authorized to receive that information. From there, you can work with the insurance company to collect the benefit.
It's worth noting, however, that not all companies participate in this service, as insurers participate on a voluntary basis. There's no guarantee that a policy will be found. If you do find information on a policy, you can start the process of submitting a claim directly with the life insurance company.
Another resource to look into is your state's comptroller's Unclaimed Property Office. If a life insurance company is aware that a policyholder has died but can't locate the beneficiary, it must turn over the death benefit to the state.
If you know or can guess the state in which the policy was bought, you can visit the state's Unclaimed Property Office using the locator tool provided by the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators .
Once you've identified the insurance company and retrieved the deceased's policy information, follow these steps to claim a found life insurance policy:
Each beneficiary is entitled to their portion of the death benefit as specified by the policy. An attractive feature of a life insurance policy is that beneficiaries don't pay taxes on the proceeds if disbursed in a lump sum.
However, if you retain the funds in an interest-bearing account, you'll have to pay taxes on the earnings in the account. Similarly, if the beneficiary receives the death benefit as an annuity or receives multiple payments over time, any interest accrued will be subject to taxes as well.
According to Policygenius, some deaths don't qualify for coverage. If the policyholder dies due to the following restricted causes, this could nullify your right to the death benefit.
Insurance companies must abide by privacy laws when disclosing policy details. Insurers may only provide policy information to the following individuals.
You'll want to consider your dependent's needs, your financial goals, and your budget when comparing life insurance policy options. If you want affordable coverage until your kids become adults or your mortgage is paid off, term life insurance may be the way to go. Alternatively, if you have lifelong dependents or want to grow your policy to leave a larger death benefit or pay for long-term care costs, a permanent life insurance policy is worth considering.
You'll need the deceased's personal information including their full name, Social Security number, date of birth, former addresses, and policy information (if available). Financial records, such as bank statements or tax returns, may also reveal information about existing life insurance policies.
Start by checking the deceased's personal records, such as files, paperwork, or financial documents for evidence of an existing life insurance policy. If you know the insurance company, you can call them directly to provide you with available policy information. The state Unclaimed Property Office and the NAIC policy locator service are also tools that can help you track down potential insurance benefits.
Challenges such as incomplete information and privacy laws make it difficult to locate a missing insurance policy. Overcome these obstacles by gathering as much information as possible, tapping into available resources for help, and seeking legal advice if necessary.
Only the beneficiaries named in the policy or their legal representatives have the right to file a claim on a life insurance policy.
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By Annalisa Merelli June 24, 2024
S ince Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics . In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.
“We had read the literature that was showing an association [of infant death increases] with prior abortion restrictions or states that are hostile to abortion,” said lead author Alison Gemmill, a demographer and perinatal epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. But they weren’t sure how strong the connection was.
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In order to establish the ban’s potential impact on infant mortality, the researchers looked at deaths that occurred starting in March 2022. Babies born in that month were about 10 to 14 weeks along when the Texas abortion ban — known as SB 8 — went into effect on Sept. 1, 2021. The ban, one of the most restrictive in the country, prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
The researchers found that in 2022, 2,240 infants under the age of 1 died in Texas, more than half of whom died before 28 days of life. In 2021, there were 1,985 infant deaths, a statistically significant difference.
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“I actually don’t think that it was obvious that there would be increases in infant deaths, and so just that there is itself an important finding,” said Amanda Jean Stevenson, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, whose work focuses on the impact of abortion and family planning policy. “There would be an argument to be made that we wouldn’t expect to see statistically significant increases, because this is such a rare outcome, and abortion had already been restricted in Texas pretty substantially,” said Stevenson, who was not involved in the study.
The findings, she said, show the huge impact that a restriction on abortion can have, even starting from low levels of access. Before SB 8 went into effect, abortion in Texas was essentially banned after 22 weeks, and the state imposed other restrictions, such as requiring hospital admitting privileges to provide an abortion and curtailing access for minors. “We think it’s actually a causal effect,” said Gemmill.
The study had limitations, including the fact that the gestational age was not included in infants’ death certificates. The low absolute number of deaths prevented more detailed demographic analyses, too. But the researchers focused on building apples-to-apples comparisons by accessing the same Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data for Texas and the rest of the country. They only included states where infant deaths exceeded 10 in any given month between 2018 and 2022, as data for smaller states didn’t provide the same level of granularity.
“Given the really substantial rigor that this article uses in its analysis, I am confident that this is something that happened exactly when SB 8 went into effect,” said Stevenson. “I think that it’s very strong evidence that SB 8 is the cause of the observed increase.”
Among the causes of infant deaths, one increased the most: congenital abnormalities, which increased 22.9% in Texas in children between 2021 and 2022, while they decreased 2.9% in the rest of the country. That trend suggests that at least in some cases, parents were forced to carry a pregnancy to term while knowing their children had little to no chance of survival, said Gemmill.
“What we know from the literature is that any infant death is a traumatic event to experience,” she said. “But I can imagine that carrying that fetus to term when you could have had the option to terminate is going to just add that additional trauma and heartbreak to the situation.”
Significant increases were also found in babies who died because of maternal complications of pregnancy; in Texas, those deaths increased by 18.2% between 2021 and 2022, compared to 7.8% in the rest of the country. Infant deaths caused by unintentional injuries, which can be associated with unwanted pregnancies, also increased by 20.7%, compared to a 1.1% increase elsewhere in the U.S.
These numbers only paint a partial picture of the long-term impact of abortion bans, said Gemmill, who is planning to focus her research on infant morbidity. Babies born with congenital abnormalities can face extremely difficult life circumstances, and require immense practical and emotional investment from parents.
Deadly fatal abnormalities can’t be corrected through medical intervention, leaving the prevention of these deaths to policy. “The most effective way to prevent these unnecessary infant deaths is clearly to not restrict abortion,” said Stevenson. “The other thing that is possible is to support people leaving Texas and states that ban abortion to get abortion in other places. So there also is an opportunity for policy intervention in the form of facilitating people crossing state lines for care,” she said.
In the short term, Gemmill said, stronger support is needed for the families facing the loss of an infant. Stevenson agrees: “The grief that parents experience, the burden that caring for terminally ill infants places on families and health care providers — there are a lot of ways that our society doesn’t support people who are dealing with traumas like these.”
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