E-Application: Default Application Type

When writing business with Kansas City Life, do you submit the Tele-Application or Full Application for the majority of your cases?  If so, make sure your Application Type default matches how you sell to help speed up the E-Application process!

If you would like to change your Application Type default, you can make the change on the preferences section of www.iKCLife.com.

When the E-Application loads, it will default as the selection from the preferences page.

Click on the Application Type dropdown to change the application from your default.

We hope this feature makes doing business with Kansas City Life even easier!

Illustration Development Team

1-800-572-2467 x8162

illustrationhelp@kclife.com

Inforce Indexed Universal Life Illustrations

 

The Illustration Development Team is excited to announce that all Indexed Universal Life plans are available to be inforce illustrated!

You'll find an updated look with new features to immediately generate inforce Compass Elite IUL and EquiFlex IUL illustrations.

Features include:

• The ability to make immediate and future changes for:
• Premium
• Specified Amount
• Death Benefit Option
• A Loan Payback Section with a repayment calculator.
• The ability to illustrate all riders and edit rider amounts.

To run an IUL inforce illustration, hover over Illustrate in the top menu bar and click on Inforce Search.

On the inforce search screen, enter the indexed universal life policy number and click the Search button.  The policy will be pulled up if you are the assigned agent for the policy.

This will take you to the summary screen where the basic information of the policy can be viewed.  The policy can be inforce illustrated if it has been in force for at least a year and the policy is at or above the minimum specified amount.

Click on Inforce in the left-hand menu to go to the input screen.  From here you can run a current inforce illustration or make hypothetical changes to the policy.  Within the Output box, click Quick View to generate and view the results on the screen and click Download to generate the illustration as a PDF.

To make a hypothetical change to the premium, specified amount or death benefit option, check the Change checkbox within the section.  This will allow different changes to be made including changing the current amount, entering a schedule, or using a calculator.

Within the Income box, a new withdrawal or loan can be added by clicking the Add Withdrawal and Add Loan buttons.  If the policy has an existing withdrawal or loan, the information will be listed within this section as well.  Some of the options available for an existing loan are illustrating paying back the loan in full now, changing the loan to a withdrawal, editing the loan repayment, and calculating the required repayment amount to pay off the loan in a certain number of years.

All riders the policy has will be listed within the Riders box.

Click on the rider name to view detailed information about the rider or to make changes to the rider.  Just like the other sections, click the Change checkbox to edit the rider amount or to add a rider schedule, if applicable. Clicking the Cease Rider checkbox will hypothetically remove the rider from the policy.

An exciting new feature within the inforce system is the ability to transfer a case from the inforce system to the new business system.  If you have a client that wants to apply for a new plan, clicking New Business makes this process easy!  All of the client's personal information is transferred to the Illustration System and E-App, but we don't transfer any of the policy information. Once transferred to the Illustration System, pick the new product that you and the client decide on and review the personal information to make sure it is up-to-date.

We hope this helps in servicing your clients! Please contact us if you have any questions about running an inforce Compass Elite IUL or EquiFlex IUL illustration on iKCLife.

Have a Great Day,

Illustration Development Team

1-800-572-2467 x8162

illustrationhelp@kclife.com

2022 Product Revisions

Due to regulatory changes, the Gift of Life, Value Certain 20, Cashback 20, and Cashback 30 are being revised. These newly revised products will be available on the iKCLife Illustration System beginning Dec. 31, 2021.

All applications (E-App and paper) received on and after Dec. 31, 2021 will be issued as the new version of the product. Any applications written on or before Dec. 30, 2021 must be received in New Business by Jan. 3, 2022 in order to be issued as the previous version of the product. The sales materials for the revised products will be available to order from Supply on Jan. 3, 2022.

These product revisions are not changing any of the inner workings of the products. From the outside, the products will appear exactly as they were before. The revisions only include updated rates that are used to calculate the policy values, like premium and cash value.

E-Application: Fixed Annuity

The E-App is available for all fixed annuity products!

Kansas City Life Insurance Company now has a paperless option for submitting applications on all fixed annuity products.  The electronic application, or E-App, is available on the Application for Individual Fixed Annuity.  This intuitive and easy-to-use E-App will help reduce errors and allow for the convenience of electronic signatures.

Find the E-App by clicking on E-Application within the Illustration System menu on www.iKCLife.com.

Have questions on the E-Application process?  On the E-Application Resources page you can read the Agent Guide for a quick step-by-step guide or watch the training video for a demo of the full process!

If you haven't yet ran a fixed annuity quote in the Illustration System read the Running Annuity Illustrations blog post for tips and information.

E-Application: Ordering Paramedical Exams

Kansas City Life Insurance Company announces a new feature that allows agents to electronically order paramedical exams directly from the E-App.

The new feature can be found near the signature section of the application after 'E-Submit' is clicked.  It is available for full applications when a paramedical exam is required.

In order to complete the exam order, the agent will be linked to ExamOne or APPS.

Agents will need to register online with ExamOne or APPS in order to complete the exam order.  Agents may be required to log in depending on browser settings.

For questions on ExamOne or APPS, please contact the New Business Department at ext. 8025.

Running Annuity Illustrations

Have you ever been meeting with a client when they ask you about annuities, but you don't know where to begin quoting one? Well have no fear, follow these steps and you'll be quoting one of our amazing annuities in no time!

First, you will need to make your way into the Illustration System just as you would for any other quote. We have three fixed annuities, GrowthTrack, SecurityTrack, and the SelecTrack series. There is also one immediate annuity, the Single Premium Immediate Annuity (SPIA). If you need help deciding which product best suits your client, check out our Product Guide, located in the Product Portfolio. Once you have decided on a product, go ahead and select it from the products drop-down in the Illustration System.

Next, you will need to select whether the annuity will be Qualified or Non-Qualified. If you are unsure, please consult a tax advisor to find out which one to choose.

Now, you need to enter the client information. If this is going to be a joint policy, simply hit Annuitant 2 to add the second client. If you have two annuitants and need to remove one, click on the minus button in the red box next to Annuitant 2, as shown below.

You will want to notice that there is less client information collected for annuities than life products. That is because annuities are issued without a risk class, meaning all that is needed is an age/date of birth and gender to do your quote.

Next, you will need to make sure that your premium schedule is set up correctly, give your specific product. Each of product has a different minimum premium amount so you will want to check out the Product Guide, located in the Product Portfolio, if you have any questions about the different product minimums.

You should now be ready to add different payout options to the illustration.

In the drop-down, there are 5 payout options if you have just a single annuitant, and only 2 options if you have a joint case. 

For more information about what these payout options are, please refer to the Product Portfolio. To remove a payout, you will hit the red button with a minus, similar to how you remove an extra annuitant.

If your client wishes to see any sort of income in the illustration, you can add that by hitting the Add Withdrawal button, shown below.

Withdrawals are a little more straight forward than payout amount. Each one withdrawal has a start year, a duration (how many years the withdrawals will last for), and a withdrawal amount. If you accidentally add too many, hit the little red circle with a minus in it to remove the desired withdrawal.

Please note that there is a key difference between adding payout options and doing a withdrawal. Adding a payout to an annuity will show the premium paid out if all of the cash value was transferred into a SPIA while a withdrawal shows money being taken out of the cash value directly. Withdrawals are only available on our fixed annuities.

If doing a quote on one of our fixed annuities, the last thing to do before illustrating is take a look at the Riders section. For these products, there are two riders available. One is the Nursing Home Waiver (NHW), which is required on all fixed annuities so you will not be able to uncheck it. The other is the Lifetime Income Rider (LIR), which is a little more complex and requires certain sections to be filled out. For single annuitants, you will need to decide an age for the income payments to start and the tax bracket rate specific to your client. For joint annuitants, you must do both the income start age and tax rate, but must also check the Joint Rider box. 

Now you are ready to actually illustrate the case. To do this, there are two options, Quick View and Download.

Quick View will give you a basic illustration showing just the calculated numbers. Given you have one of our fixed annuities selected, this will include guaranteed and current cash value growth charts, and the premium schedule. Assuming that you have payout options in your case setup, these will be shown by all annuities. However, the fixed annuities do not have to have a payout option in order to be illustrated.

In the Quick View of the payout options, you will be able to see which option is being illustrated, the amount that being bought, the yearly payout, the income factor, and the exclusion ratio. If you have multiple payout options set up, they will all be illustrated similarly to the picture above.

If you hit Download, the system will download a PDF to your computer and you can open or save it to share with clients. The PDF will contain more product information, along with everything included in the Quick View.

Hopefully this helps get you started quoting Annuities as I'm sure you will be excited for updates that are soon to come! If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to us at the number or email below.

Thank you!

Illustration Development Team

Kansas City Life

illustrationhelp@kclife.com

1-800-572-2467 x 8162

Product Revision: Value Assured

We are making an update to our beloved whole life plan, Value Assured. Starting August 1st, 2021; the new 2021 version of the product will be live on all Illustration Systems.

There will be two versions of the product listed in the product dropdown.

The one listed Value Assured is the revised 2021 version, and the other one listed Value Assured (2018) is the previous version. All states--with the exception of California--will use the 2021 version of the Value Assured. Until the new 2021 version is approved in California, applications with California as the issue state will use the 2018 version.

There are no major differences between the old 2018 and new 2021 version. The plan works the same way as before, level premium payment until age 100 with insurance lasting until age 120. There are still the three surrender options of Cash Value, Paid-up Insurance, and Extended Term Insurance. But, the rates used in calculating all of the values for the product have been updated.

One new addition you may notice is the option to add the PWP (Purchaser Waiver of Premium) rider on the new version of the Value Assured within the Illustration System on iKCLife.com. This rider has always been available on the Value Assured, but with the new 2021 version coming out, it will be the first time it is illustratable.

This rider works similarly to the WP (Waiver of Premium), but only applicable in cases where there is a separate purchaser (premium payor) other than the primary insured. Premium payments will be waived during a period of total disability of the purchaser or at the death of the purchaser.

For the time being, the PWP rider will only show for the Illustration System on iKCLife. All other versions of our quoting software (Legacy Illustration System and Desktop Illustration System) will not be able to quote the PWP on the Value Assured.