With back-to-school and fall approaching, there’s a lot to do this time of the year. However, don’t let this month pass without taking pause to participate in Life Insurance Awareness Month. Spending some time this year thinking about how to protect your family and assets from the unexpected could be hugely beneficial for you and your loved ones in the future.

Each September, Life Happens sponsors Life Insurance Awareness Month to help families across the country evaluate their life insurance needs. Even if you don’t have a family of your own, you may still want to consider this valuable protection if you have any financial dependents or debts. Life insurance can play an important role in your financial plan.

Life insurance is a complex product that can be unpleasant to think about. Life Insurance Awareness Month is a good time to learn more about life insurance and how this protection can help you and your family achieve your goals.

To get you started on thinking about life insurance this September, we’ve compiled some helpful tools to help you learn more about this coverage. As always, it is best to speak with a licensed insurance agent about your options before purchasing coverage.

Life Insurance Tools

Life Insurance Calculator

Life Happens has an easy-to-use life insurance calculator. This calculator will help you identify the types of income and debts that you should be mindful of when choosing your limits, as well as help you understand what you have to protect and how much that may cost. The calculator also allows you to account for inflation and taxes.

Term vs. Whole Life Insurance Calculator

This handy term versus whole life calculator by Huntley Life Insurance Services can help you easily determine some of the pros and cons of one policy type against the other. This calculator weighs the policy premiums, death benefits and potential returns on investments against one another to give you an idea of which policy makes the most financial sense long-term.

Watch and Learn

Our friends at AccuQuote have an extensive life insurance video library on their YouTube channel dedicated to helping you learn more about the coverage and how it could benefit you. Their channel is a great resource for learning more about life insurance and they even have a library of videos answering life insurance FAQs.

Follow Along

The official Life Insurance Awareness Month hashtag for this year is #LIAM17. You can use it on Twitter to find helpful information related to life insurance from many reputable insurance agencies and organizations.

Talk With An Agent

There’s a lot to learn when it comes to life insurance and these tools can help you get a head start on evaluating coverage this Life Insurance Awareness Month. Life insurance doesn’t have to be boring - these interactive tools will help you take real action into determining what kind of coverage and how much coverage is right for you and your situation.

A licensed life insurance agent is possibly the most important tool in your life insurance tool kit. Working with an agent who you trust who can answer your questions and help you evaluate plans is the best way to secure coverage.

How will you celebrate Life Insurance Awareness Month? Tell us on Twitter @insuramatch.