Family Planning

Family Insurance Planner

Get a complete insurance plan for your family — recommended term cover, health cover and estimated premiums — tailored to your life stage.

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Family Insurance Planner
Complete insurance plan recommendation for your family based on income & life stage
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Disclaimer. This planner produces general, rule-of-thumb recommendations for planning purposes only and is not personalized financial or insurance advice — consult a licensed insurance advisor to tailor coverage to your family's exact circumstances. Read full disclaimer →

How Your Family Insurance Plan Is Built

This planner recommends a term life cover of 15× your annual household income, and a health cover that scales with family size (₹5L for up to 2 members, ₹10L for 3–4, ₹20L for 5+). Estimated term premiums are calculated at roughly 0.1% of cover for earners 40 or under, rising to about 0.2% past age 40 to reflect higher mortality-based pricing. Health premiums are estimated at roughly 0.4% of cover per family member, plus a flat ₹8,000 for car insurance.

The plan also adds a short recommendation based on your selected life stage — from building a strong term and critical-illness base as a single professional, to shifting toward health and critical-illness cover and winding down term cover near retirement once loans are cleared.

Worked Example

For a ₹15,00,000 household income, a 35-year-old primary earner, a family of 3, in the Young Family stage: recommended term cover = ₹2,25,00,000, recommended health cover = ₹10,00,000, with an estimated combined annual premium (term + health + car) of about ₹37,700, or roughly 2.5% of household income.

Frequently Asked Questions

Each life stage carries different priorities. A single professional is steered toward term and critical-illness cover; a young family toward maximizing term cover and adding child-education planning; someone pre-retirement toward emphasizing health cover and reducing term cover once major loans are paid off. The dollar amounts stay driven by income and family size, but the note text adapts to what matters most at that stage.
Term insurance pricing is heavily driven by mortality risk, which rises with age. This planner doubles the estimated premium rate once the primary earner passes 40, reflecting how insurers typically price term cover more steeply for applicants in their 40s and beyond.
It's a rough placeholder covering a typical single-vehicle family policy — actual car insurance premiums vary by vehicle value, city, no-claim bonus and coverage type (third-party vs comprehensive). Use the dedicated car insurance premium calculator for a more precise figure and adjust your total accordingly.
Treat these as a starting point: compare actual term and health insurance quotes from 3-4 insurers against the recommended cover amounts, check that health cover is a family floater with no major sub-limits, and review the plan again after any major life event like a new child, home purchase or job change.
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