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MetLife Adds Disability Benefit Increase Rider

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NU Online News Service, Aug. 31, 2004, 3:21 p.m. EDT

MetLife Inc., New York, has introduced an automatic increase benefit rider for some individual disability insurance policies.[@@]

Policyholders who buy the rider get a few years of automatic inflation protection without having to provide additional evidence of continued insurability.

The rider automatically increases the base monthly benefit by 5% each year for the first 5 years that the policy is in effect. After the policy has been in effect for 5 years, the policyholder must get financial and underwriting approval to renew the automatic increase rider, MetLife says.

The rider itself is free, but the policyholder must pay for the additional coverage when the level of coverage increases.


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