How does life insurance work after you die?

Once you have passed away, your beneficiary would need to contact your life insurance company and make a claim on your policy in order to receive the death benefits from your insurance.

That's why it is so important to make sure you let your beneficiary know that you have life insurance, where the policy is located, and what to do once you've died, so they can get the proceeds from your life insurance.

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