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- the invention relates to managing life insurance and life insurance benefits.
- insurance policies such as life insurance policies operate on the basis that an insured person, sometimes referred to as an insured life, pays a premium to the life insurer, and the life insurer pays a predetermined sum, referred to as the sum assured, to the insured life or his/her beneficiary on the occurrence of an insured event.
- Typical insured events are the insured life suffering disability, contracting a dread disease or dying.
- a method of managing insurance policy includes:
- a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person
- the method may further include periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- the debt protector amount or total debt protector amount is paid out to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level may be set by one or more financial institutions or by a regional authority.
- a system for managing an insurance policy includes:
- a memory for storing a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person;
- an interest rate determining module to determine after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- a comparator module to compare the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level
- a calculating module to calculate a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level
- a payment module to pay the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary on the occurrence of an insured event.
- the system may further include:
- the interest rate determining module periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- the comparator module comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level
- calculating module calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level and adding the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount;
- the payment module on the occurrence of an insured event paying the total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- the payment module pays the debt protector amount or total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level may be set by one or more financial institutions or by a regional authority.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example system to implement the methodologies described herein;
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example method of managing an insurance scheme
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed view of an information processing system according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the systems and methodologies described herein relate to a system and method of managing an insurance scheme such as a life insurance scheme.
- the present invention may be implemented by a traditional life insurance plan operator for its members or may be implemented by another party.
- Conventional life insurance schemes operate on the basis that an insured person, referred to as the insured life, pays premiums on a regular basis to the life insurer, specifying a sum assured which is an amount to be paid out on the occurrence of an insured event. For example, on the death of the insured life, a predetermined death benefit is paid to the nominated beneficiaries of the insured life. If the insured life is disabled or suffers a dread disease, a different, lesser amount is paid out.
- the invention addresses the effect that interest rate increases have on the debt of the insured life. Particularly, if the insured life has debt which they are servicing, any increase in interest rates negatively affects their financial position significantly. Thus, the quantum of insurance purchased in the event of any insurable event may be correct at the inception of the policy, but may not be sufficient after interest rate increases.
- the invention provides a system and method of managing an insurance scheme to address this.
- system and methodology may be implemented by any relevant person or organisation.
- the system and methodology may be operated by the organisation which operates the life insurance scheme or may be implemented by another associated organisation.
- the system and methodology may be implemented by a financial organisation which issues credit cards to its members.
- a plurality of life changing events are defined.
- the plurality of life changing events in the example includes disability, contracting a dread disease or dying as these are typical of the kind of events which are insured by life insurance schemes.
- these life changing events may be other events such as the birth of a child or changing jobs to name but a few examples.
- the quantum of insurance purchased in the event of any insurable event may be correct at the inception of the policy but may not be sufficient after interest rate increases.
- FIG. 1 of the accompanying Figures an exemplary system for implementing the above methodologies is shown.
- the system includes a server 12 which includes a number of modules to implement the methodologies described herein.
- the modules described may be implemented by a machine-readable medium embodying instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform any of the methods described above.
- modules illustrated could be located on one or more servers operated by one or more institutions.
- the system implements a method of managing an insurance policy that includes storing in a memory 10 associated with the server 12 a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person.
- the memory is illustrated as a database 10 . It will be appreciated that the memory could take any other suitable form.
- the inception interest rate level can be obtained by determining module 14 accessing an official database or website to obtain this information or by receiving this information via communications network 22 .
- the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level may be set by one or more financial institutions or may be set by a regional authority such as a government in a country.
- the interest rate level is set by the relevant financial institution but is linked to an interest rate set by the South African Reserve Bank and is usually slightly higher than the interest rate set by the Reserve Bank.
- the method includes determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time.
- the interest rate level can again be obtained by determining module 14 accessing an official database or website to obtain this information or by receiving this information via communications network 22 .
- a comparing module 16 compares the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level and if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then a calculating module 18 calculates a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person.
- a payment module 20 pays the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- this is implemented by the payment module 20 communicating via a communications network 22 with a server of a financial institution (not shown) and instructing the server of the financial institution to pay the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- the methodology will be implemented by periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time.
- an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time is monthly.
- the determined interest rate level is each time compared with the inception interest rate level and if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person is calculated by the calculating module 18 .
- the calculating module 18 will also add the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount.
- the debt protector amount or total debt protector amount as the case may be is paid out to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- An example of the predetermined age may be a retirement age such as 65.
- the benefit described essentially implements a fund that pays out at age 65 or on earlier death of the insured person and the funds build up if there are interest rate increases that could impact on the insured persons' financial wealth.
- the compliance of the insured person with a wellness program may be monitored and may play a part in the calculating of the debt protector amount.
- members participate in approved related facilities and/or services.
- members use gymnasiums, Smokenders (a registered trademark of Smokenders USA, of Chicago, Ill.), and Weighless (an abandoned registration of Weighless, LLC, of Brooklyn Center, MN).
- members are awarded points and depending on the total number of points allocated to a member, they fall within one of five statuses.
- these statuses have been named in ascending order of value, blue, bronze, silver, gold and diamond. All members are placed initially in the blue status. Once a member has accumulated a predetermined number of points, his/her status is upgraded to the next appropriate level.
- the wellness program could be operated by the insurer or could be operated by a third party that operates the wellness program and then informs the insurer of the degree of participation of the insured person with the wellness program.
- the data is received at the at least one server and stored in database 10 associated with the at least one server.
- the data will include at least an identity of the insured person and data identifying the status of the insured person, for example blue, bronze, silver, gold and diamond.
- a monitoring of the compliance of the insured person with the wellness program includes receiving insured person usage information associated with the insured person's usage of the wellness program and determining, based on the usage information, a status level associated with the insured person for the wellness program, wherein the status level indicates a degree of participation in the wellness program
- the usage information received may include information associated with a plurality of separate and distinct occurrences of wellness program participation by the insured person.
- the method may further include determining a status level associated with the insured person that further includes receiving the usage information from an information processing system and assigning a given point value to each separate and distinct occurrence of wellness program participation.
- a total point value is determined based on an accumulation of each given point value assigned to each separate and distinct occurrence of wellness program participation.
- the total point value is then compared to a plurality of point ranges, each point range in the plurality of point ranges being associated with a status level and identifying a point range in the plurality of point ranges corresponding to the total point value.
- a status level is assigned that is associated with the point range that has been identified to the at least one employee.
- This status level is then used to adjust the amount of the debt protector amount.
- the insured person selects between two options.
- the first option is 20% of their basic insured amount and the second option is 40% of the basic insured amount.
- R480 will be the calculated amount payable to the insured person for that month.
- a record of this amount will be stored in the memory 10 and as each month goes by, if the interest rate is higher than the starting interest rate a further amount will be added to this amount and the total will grow.
- the debt protector amount can be linked to the compliance of the insured person with the wellness program described above so that the better the compliance with the wellness program the larger the debt protector amount.
- FIG. 3 is a high level block diagram illustrating a more detailed view of a computing system 600 of the invention, such as any of the information processing systems of the invention, including for example the system described with respect to FIG. 1 , or for carrying out the methods of the invention, for example the method as described with respect to FIG. 2 .
- the computing system 600 is based upon a suitably configured processing system adapted to implement an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
- a personal computer, workstation, or the like may be used.
- the computing system 600 includes one or more processors, such as processor 604 .
- the processor 604 is connected to a communication infrastructure 602 (e.g., a communications bus, crossover bar, or network).
- a communication infrastructure 602 e.g., a communications bus, crossover bar, or network.
- Various software embodiments are described in terms of this exemplary computer system. After reading this description, it becomes apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the relevant art(s) how to implement the invention using other computer systems and/or computer architectures.
- the computing system 600 can include a display interface 608 that forwards graphics, text, and other data from the communication infrastructure 602 (or from a frame buffer) for display on the display unit 610 .
- the computing system 400 also includes a main memory 606 , preferably random access memory (RAM), and may also include a secondary memory 612 as well as various caches and auxiliary memory as are normally found in computer systems.
- the secondary memory 612 may include, for example, a hard disk drive 614 and/or a removable storage drive 616 , representing a floppy disk drive, a magnetic tape drive, an optical disk drive, and the like.
- the removable storage drive 616 reads from and/or writes to a removable storage unit 618 in a manner well known to those having ordinary skill in the art.
- Removable storage unit 618 represents a floppy disk, a compact disc, magnetic tape, optical disk, etc. which is read by and written to by removable storage drive 616 .
- the removable storage unit 618 includes a computer readable medium having stored therein computer software and/or data.
- the computer readable medium may include non-volatile memory, such as ROM, Flash memory, Disk drive memory, CD-ROM, and other permanent storage.
- a computer medium may include, for example, volatile storage such as RAM, buffers, cache memory, and network circuits.
- the computer readable medium may comprise computer readable information in a transitory state medium such as a network link and/or a network interface, including a wired network or a wireless network that allow a computer to read such computer-readable information.
- the secondary memory 612 may include other similar means for allowing computer programs or other instructions to be loaded into the computing system 600 .
- Such means may include, for example, a removable storage unit 622 and an interface 620 .
- Examples of such may include a program cartridge and cartridge interface (such as that found in video game devices), a removable memory chip (such as an EPROM, or PROM) and associated socket, and other removable storage units 622 and interfaces 620 which allow software and data to be transferred from the removable storage unit 622 to the computing system 600 .
- the computing system 600 includes a communications interface 624 that acts as an input and output and allows software and data to be transferred between the computing system 600 and external devices or access points via a communications path 626 .
- communications interface 624 may include a modem, a network interface (such as an Ethernet card), a communications port, a PCMCIA slot and card, etc.
- Software and data transferred via communications interface 624 are in the form of signals which may be, for example, electronic, electromagnetic, optical, or other signals capable of being received by communications interface 624 .
- the signals are provided to communications interface 624 via a communications path (i.e., channel) 626 .
- the channel 626 carries signals and may be implemented using wire or cable, fiber optics, a phone line, a cellular phone link, an RF link, and/or other communications channels.
- computer program medium “computer usable medium,” “computer readable medium”, “computer readable storage product”, and “computer program storage product” are used to generally refer to media such as main memory 606 and secondary memory 612 , removable storage drive 616 , and a hard disk installed in hard disk drive 614 .
- the computer program products are means for providing software to the computer system.
- the computer readable medium allows the computer system to read data, instructions, messages or message packets, and other computer readable information from the computer readable medium.
- Computer programs are stored in main memory 406 and/or secondary memory 612 . Computer programs may also be received via communications interface 624 . Such computer programs, when executed, enable the computer system to perform the features of the various embodiments of the present invention as discussed herein. In particular, the computer programs, when executed, enable the processor 604 to perform the features of the computer system.
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A method of managing an insurance policy includes storing in a memory a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person. After the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time is determined and compared with the inception interest rate level. If the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person is calculated and on the occurrence of an insured event the debt protector amount is paid to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
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- This application claims the benefit of related South African Patent Application ZA 2009/07507, filed Oct. 26, 2009, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- The invention relates to managing life insurance and life insurance benefits.
- Conventionally, insurance policies such as life insurance policies operate on the basis that an insured person, sometimes referred to as an insured life, pays a premium to the life insurer, and the life insurer pays a predetermined sum, referred to as the sum assured, to the insured life or his/her beneficiary on the occurrence of an insured event. Typical insured events are the insured life suffering disability, contracting a dread disease or dying.
- The art described in this section is not intended to constitute an admission that any patent, publication or other information referred to herein is “prior art” with respect to this invention, unless specifically designated as such. In addition, this section should not be construed to mean that a search has been made or that no other pertinent information as defined in 37 CFR §1.56(a) exists.
- According to one example embodiment, a method of managing insurance policy includes:
- storing in a memory a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person;
- determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
- if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person; and
- on the occurrence of an insured event paying the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- The method may further include periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
- if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person;
- adding the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount; and
- on the occurrence of an insured event paying the total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- In addition, if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the debt protector amount or total debt protector amount is paid out to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- The inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level may be set by one or more financial institutions or by a regional authority.
- According to another example embodiment, a system for managing an insurance policy includes:
- a memory for storing a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person;
- an interest rate determining module to determine after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- a comparator module to compare the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
- a calculating module to calculate a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level; and
- a payment module to pay the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary on the occurrence of an insured event.
- The system may further include:
- the interest rate determining module periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
- the comparator module comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
- calculating module calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level and adding the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount; and
- the payment module on the occurrence of an insured event paying the total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- In addition, if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the payment module pays the debt protector amount or total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- The inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level may be set by one or more financial institutions or by a regional authority.
- A more complete understanding of the present invention, and the attendant advantages and features thereof, will be more readily understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example system to implement the methodologies described herein; -
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example method of managing an insurance scheme; and -
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a detailed view of an information processing system according to one embodiment of the present invention. - The systems and methodologies described herein relate to a system and method of managing an insurance scheme such as a life insurance scheme.
- The present invention may be implemented by a traditional life insurance plan operator for its members or may be implemented by another party.
- Conventional life insurance schemes operate on the basis that an insured person, referred to as the insured life, pays premiums on a regular basis to the life insurer, specifying a sum assured which is an amount to be paid out on the occurrence of an insured event. For example, on the death of the insured life, a predetermined death benefit is paid to the nominated beneficiaries of the insured life. If the insured life is disabled or suffers a dread disease, a different, lesser amount is paid out.
- The invention addresses the effect that interest rate increases have on the debt of the insured life. Particularly, if the insured life has debt which they are servicing, any increase in interest rates negatively affects their financial position significantly. Thus, the quantum of insurance purchased in the event of any insurable event may be correct at the inception of the policy, but may not be sufficient after interest rate increases. The invention provides a system and method of managing an insurance scheme to address this.
- The method and system will be described with reference to these kinds of schemes but it will be appreciated that the method and system could equally be applied to other types of insurance schemes.
- It will also be appreciated that the system and methodology may be implemented by any relevant person or organisation. For example, the system and methodology may be operated by the organisation which operates the life insurance scheme or may be implemented by another associated organisation. In one example the system and methodology may be implemented by a financial organisation which issues credit cards to its members.
- For purposes of illustration, the system and methodology will be described herein as being operated by the managers of a life insurance scheme.
- A plurality of life changing events are defined. The plurality of life changing events in the example includes disability, contracting a dread disease or dying as these are typical of the kind of events which are insured by life insurance schemes. However, it will be appreciated that in other contexts these life changing events may be other events such as the birth of a child or changing jobs to name but a few examples.
- However, a factor that is not heretofore considered in life insurance is the effect that interest rate increases have on the debt of the insured life. Particularly, if the insured life has debt which they are servicing, any increase in interest rates negatively affects their financial position significantly.
- Thus, the quantum of insurance purchased in the event of any insurable event may be correct at the inception of the policy but may not be sufficient after interest rate increases.
- Referring to
FIG. 1 of the accompanying Figures, an exemplary system for implementing the above methodologies is shown. - The system includes a
server 12 which includes a number of modules to implement the methodologies described herein. - The modules described may be implemented by a machine-readable medium embodying instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform any of the methods described above.
- It will be appreciated that embodiments of the present invention are not limited to such architecture, and could equally well find application in a distributed, or peer-to-peer, architecture system. Thus the modules illustrated could be located on one or more servers operated by one or more institutions.
- The system implements a method of managing an insurance policy that includes storing in a
memory 10 associated with the server 12 a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person. - In the accompanying drawings, the memory is illustrated as a
database 10. It will be appreciated that the memory could take any other suitable form. - The inception interest rate level can be obtained by determining
module 14 accessing an official database or website to obtain this information or by receiving this information viacommunications network 22. - In any event, the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level may be set by one or more financial institutions or may be set by a regional authority such as a government in a country.
- In South Africa, the interest rate level is set by the relevant financial institution but is linked to an interest rate set by the South African Reserve Bank and is usually slightly higher than the interest rate set by the Reserve Bank.
- In any event, what is important about the interest rate level is that this determines the interest amount payable by the insured person if they have any debt. Therefore, any increase in the interest rate effectively means that the insured person will require more money to service their debt and will have less free money available to finance their living expenses.
- In order to protect against this, the method includes determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time.
- The interest rate level can again be obtained by determining
module 14 accessing an official database or website to obtain this information or by receiving this information viacommunications network 22. - A comparing
module 16 compares the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level and if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then a calculatingmodule 18 calculates a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person. - On the occurrence of an insured event, a
payment module 20 pays the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary. - In one example, this is implemented by the
payment module 20 communicating via acommunications network 22 with a server of a financial institution (not shown) and instructing the server of the financial institution to pay the insured person or their nominated beneficiary. - It is envisaged that the methodology will be implemented by periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time. One example of periodically is monthly.
- In this example, the determined interest rate level is each time compared with the inception interest rate level and if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person is calculated by the calculating
module 18. - However, in this example, the calculating
module 18 will also add the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount. - On the occurrence of an insured event the total debt protector amount will be paid to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- In a further example embodiment, if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the debt protector amount or total debt protector amount as the case may be is paid out to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
- An example of the predetermined age may be a retirement age such as 65.
- Thus the benefit described essentially implements a fund that pays out at age 65 or on earlier death of the insured person and the funds build up if there are interest rate increases that could impact on the insured persons' financial wealth.
- In addition, the compliance of the insured person with a wellness program may be monitored and may play a part in the calculating of the debt protector amount.
- An example of such a wellness program is presently managed by the applicant that manages a traditional life and health insurance plan together with their wellness program disclosed in the applicant's South African granted patent number ZA 99/1746, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- In an example wellness program, members participate in approved related facilities and/or services. For example, members use gymnasiums, Smokenders (a registered trademark of Smokenders USA, of Chicago, Ill.), and Weighless (an abandoned registration of Weighless, LLC, of Brooklyn Center, MN).
- In one example, members are awarded points and depending on the total number of points allocated to a member, they fall within one of five statuses. In the implementation of the wellness program, these statuses have been named in ascending order of value, blue, bronze, silver, gold and diamond. All members are placed initially in the blue status. Once a member has accumulated a predetermined number of points, his/her status is upgraded to the next appropriate level.
- It will be appreciated that for purposes of the present invention the wellness program could be operated by the insurer or could be operated by a third party that operates the wellness program and then informs the insurer of the degree of participation of the insured person with the wellness program.
- This could occur by a third party transmitting data to the at least one
server 12 operated by the insurer. The data is received at the at least one server and stored indatabase 10 associated with the at least one server. - In one example the data will include at least an identity of the insured person and data identifying the status of the insured person, for example blue, bronze, silver, gold and diamond.
- In order to determine the status, a monitoring of the compliance of the insured person with the wellness program includes receiving insured person usage information associated with the insured person's usage of the wellness program and determining, based on the usage information, a status level associated with the insured person for the wellness program, wherein the status level indicates a degree of participation in the wellness program
- The usage information received may include information associated with a plurality of separate and distinct occurrences of wellness program participation by the insured person.
- In addition, the method may further include determining a status level associated with the insured person that further includes receiving the usage information from an information processing system and assigning a given point value to each separate and distinct occurrence of wellness program participation.
- A total point value is determined based on an accumulation of each given point value assigned to each separate and distinct occurrence of wellness program participation.
- The total point value is then compared to a plurality of point ranges, each point range in the plurality of point ranges being associated with a status level and identifying a point range in the plurality of point ranges corresponding to the total point value.
- Finally, a status level is assigned that is associated with the point range that has been identified to the at least one employee.
- This status level is then used to adjust the amount of the debt protector amount.
- One method of implementing the above described methodology is as follows.
- The insured person selects between two options. In one example, the first option is 20% of their basic insured amount and the second option is 40% of the basic insured amount.
- Using the second option as an illustrative example and using a basic insured amount of R1,000,000 for illustrative purposes, since in this example the insured person has selected the 40% option of a R1,000,000 basic fund, this equates to an amount of R400,000.3% of R400,000 is equal to R12,000 and this is assumed to be the notional monthly debt installment that the insured person is required to pay.
- An increase in interest rate levels then uses this notional monthly debt installment as follows:
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Example of monthly Example of monthly Increase in prime Percentage of insured benefit of 20% on R1m benefit of 40% on R1m interest rate instalment paid Life Fund Life Fund <=0.5% 0% — — [0.5%, 1.5%) 4% 240 480 [1.5%, 2.5%) 8% 480 960 [2.5%, 3.5%) 12% 720 1,440 [3.5%, 4.5%) 16% 960 1,920 [4.5%, 5.5%) 22% 1,320 2,640 [5.5%, 6.5%) 26% 1,560 3,120 [6.5%, 7.5%) 30% 1,800 3,600 [7.5%, 8.5%) 35% 2,100 4,200 [8.5%, 9.5%) 40% 2,400 4,800 [9.5%, 10%) 45% 2,700 5,400 >=10% 50% 3,000 6,000 Max Total 36,000 72,000 Accumulation - Thus, if the interest rate increases by 1% in a given month then R480 will be the calculated amount payable to the insured person for that month.
- A record of this amount will be stored in the
memory 10 and as each month goes by, if the interest rate is higher than the starting interest rate a further amount will be added to this amount and the total will grow. - The last row in the table indicates a maximum total accumulation which is an upper limit for this benefit.
- As discussed above, in another example, the debt protector amount can be linked to the compliance of the insured person with the wellness program described above so that the better the compliance with the wellness program the larger the debt protector amount.
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FIG. 3 is a high level block diagram illustrating a more detailed view of a computing system 600 of the invention, such as any of the information processing systems of the invention, including for example the system described with respect toFIG. 1 , or for carrying out the methods of the invention, for example the method as described with respect toFIG. 2 . - The computing system 600 is based upon a suitably configured processing system adapted to implement an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. For example, a personal computer, workstation, or the like, may be used. In one embodiment of the present invention, the computing system 600 includes one or more processors, such as
processor 604. Theprocessor 604 is connected to a communication infrastructure 602 (e.g., a communications bus, crossover bar, or network). Various software embodiments are described in terms of this exemplary computer system. After reading this description, it becomes apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the relevant art(s) how to implement the invention using other computer systems and/or computer architectures. - The computing system 600 can include a
display interface 608 that forwards graphics, text, and other data from the communication infrastructure 602 (or from a frame buffer) for display on thedisplay unit 610. The computing system 400 also includes amain memory 606, preferably random access memory (RAM), and may also include asecondary memory 612 as well as various caches and auxiliary memory as are normally found in computer systems. Thesecondary memory 612 may include, for example, ahard disk drive 614 and/or aremovable storage drive 616, representing a floppy disk drive, a magnetic tape drive, an optical disk drive, and the like. Theremovable storage drive 616 reads from and/or writes to aremovable storage unit 618 in a manner well known to those having ordinary skill in the art. -
Removable storage unit 618, represents a floppy disk, a compact disc, magnetic tape, optical disk, etc. which is read by and written to byremovable storage drive 616. As are appreciated, theremovable storage unit 618 includes a computer readable medium having stored therein computer software and/or data. The computer readable medium may include non-volatile memory, such as ROM, Flash memory, Disk drive memory, CD-ROM, and other permanent storage. Additionally, a computer medium may include, for example, volatile storage such as RAM, buffers, cache memory, and network circuits. Furthermore, the computer readable medium may comprise computer readable information in a transitory state medium such as a network link and/or a network interface, including a wired network or a wireless network that allow a computer to read such computer-readable information. - In alternative embodiments, the
secondary memory 612 may include other similar means for allowing computer programs or other instructions to be loaded into the computing system 600. Such means may include, for example, aremovable storage unit 622 and aninterface 620. Examples of such may include a program cartridge and cartridge interface (such as that found in video game devices), a removable memory chip (such as an EPROM, or PROM) and associated socket, and otherremovable storage units 622 andinterfaces 620 which allow software and data to be transferred from theremovable storage unit 622 to the computing system 600. - The computing system 600, in this example, includes a
communications interface 624 that acts as an input and output and allows software and data to be transferred between the computing system 600 and external devices or access points via acommunications path 626. Examples ofcommunications interface 624 may include a modem, a network interface (such as an Ethernet card), a communications port, a PCMCIA slot and card, etc. Software and data transferred viacommunications interface 624 are in the form of signals which may be, for example, electronic, electromagnetic, optical, or other signals capable of being received bycommunications interface 624. The signals are provided tocommunications interface 624 via a communications path (i.e., channel) 626. Thechannel 626 carries signals and may be implemented using wire or cable, fiber optics, a phone line, a cellular phone link, an RF link, and/or other communications channels. - In this document, the terms “computer program medium,” “computer usable medium,” “computer readable medium”, “computer readable storage product”, and “computer program storage product” are used to generally refer to media such as
main memory 606 andsecondary memory 612,removable storage drive 616, and a hard disk installed inhard disk drive 614. The computer program products are means for providing software to the computer system. The computer readable medium allows the computer system to read data, instructions, messages or message packets, and other computer readable information from the computer readable medium. - Computer programs (also called computer control logic) are stored in main memory 406 and/or
secondary memory 612. Computer programs may also be received viacommunications interface 624. Such computer programs, when executed, enable the computer system to perform the features of the various embodiments of the present invention as discussed herein. In particular, the computer programs, when executed, enable theprocessor 604 to perform the features of the computer system. - It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to what has been particularly shown and described herein above. In addition, unless mention was made above to the contrary, it should be noted that all of the accompanying drawings are not to scale. A variety of modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teachings without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.
- Although specific embodiments of the invention have been disclosed, those having ordinary skill in the art will understand that changes can be made to the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope of the invention is not to be restricted, therefore, to the specific embodiments, and it is intended that the appended claims cover any and all such applications, modifications, and embodiments within the scope of the present invention.
- All references cited herein are expressly incorporated by reference in their entirety. In addition, unless mention was made above to the contrary, it should be noted that all of the accompanying drawings are not to scale. There are many different features to the present invention and it is contemplated that these features may be used together or separately. Thus, the invention should not be limited to any particular combination of features or to a particular application of the invention. Further, it should be understood that variations and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention might occur to those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains. Accordingly, all expedient modifications readily attainable by one versed in the art from the disclosure set forth herein that are within the scope and spirit of the present invention are to be included as further embodiments of the present invention.
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1. A method of managing an insurance policy including:
storing in a memory a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person;
determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person; and
on the occurrence of an insured event paying the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
2. A method according to claim 1 further including:
periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level then calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person;
adding the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount; and
on the occurrence of an insured event paying the total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
3. A method according to claim 1 wherein if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the debt protector amount is paid out to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
4. A method according to claim 2 wherein if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the total debt protector amount is paid out to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
5. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level are set by one or more financial institutions.
6. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level are set by a regional authority.
7. A system for managing an insurance policy, the system including:
a memory for storing a policy inception interest rate level which is an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person;
an interest rate determining module to determine after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
a comparator module to compare the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
a calculating module to calculate a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level; and
a payment module to pay the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary on the occurrence of an insured event.
8. A system according to claim 7 further including:
the interest rate determining module periodically determining after the policy inception an interest rate level payable on debt of the insured person at that time;
the comparator module comparing the determined interest rate level with the inception interest rate level;
calculating module calculating a debt protector amount to be paid to the insured person if the determined interest rate level is higher than the inception interest rate level and adding the calculated debt protector amount to any previous periodically calculated debt protector amounts to arrive at a total debt protector amount; and
the payment module on the occurrence of an insured event paying the total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
9. A system according to claim 7 wherein if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the payment module pays the debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
10. A system according to claim 7 wherein if the insured person reaches a predetermined age the payment module pays the total debt protector amount to the insured person or their nominated beneficiary.
11. A system according to claim 7 , wherein the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level are set by one or more financial institutions.
12. A system according to claim 7 , wherein the inception interest rate level and the determined interest rate level are set by a regional authority.
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