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Life Insurance

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Louis Rice
Director of Gift Planning
404.385.0747 (phone)
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An important but frequently overlooked role of life insurance is the one it can play in charitable gift planning. Life insurance itself can be the direct funding medium of a gift, permitting the donor to make a substantial gift (face value of policy) for a relatively modest annual outlay (i.e., the premium payment).

Life insurance can also be used to replace an asset that has been given to Georgia Tech. How it works: After a donor makes a gift to Georgia Tech, the tax savings produced by the charitable deduction are used by his or her children or an irrevocable trust to purchase and pay the premiums on a life insurance policy on the donor's life. Such an arrangement can ensure that the interests of family beneficiaries will not be adversely affected.

 

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