Voya launches innovative new permanent life insurance offering through the workplace
January 23 2025 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Lifetime Life Insurance provides employees opportunity to
complement conventional term insurance with two layers of
protection, designed to last a lifetime
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) announced today the launch of
its Lifetime Life Insurance* offering, an innovative new solution
designed to complement conventional term life insurance offerings
through the workplace. As a new group term permanent life insurance
that includes an accelerated benefit for long-term care (LTC),
Voya’s Lifetime Life Insurance provides enrolled employees with two
layers of protection designed to last a lifetime: both a life
benefit and an accelerated benefit for qualified LTC services.
“When it comes to planning for one’s future, life insurance can
play a critical role in estate planning for individuals, but
industry research shows that while seven in 10 people will also
require long-term care in their lifetime,1 only 3.1% of Americans
have long-term care coverage,2” said Christin Kuretich, VP,
Supplemental Products at Voya Financial. “While many employers make
conventional life insurance available as a standard offering, it’s
worth considering whether that’s enough coverage for their
employees’ needs. By offering a conventional employer-provided term
life insurance offering alongside an employee-paid permanent term
insurance solution like Lifetime Life, employers can help offer
their workforce a lifetime of comprehensive protection, with
coverage that has the potential to be there during their working
years and beyond.”
As a 100% employee-paid coverage, Lifetime Life offers a
cost-effective, valuable benefit, including premiums that never
increase,3 and coverage employees can take wherever they go. For
employers, Lifetime Life comes with the streamlined billing,
enrollment and reliable service already available with Voya’s
supplemental benefits. Additional advantages for employers and
employees include:
- An accelerated benefit, helping minimize the financial
impact of an illness or qualified long-term care services.
- Enhanced employer benefits menus, including more benefit
options that may help increase employee satisfaction and offer the
potential to help retain or attract new talent.
- Payroll deductions for premiums, providing a convenient
system for both employers and employees.
- Lasting, portable coverage to and through retirement,
allowing employees who leave their employer or retire to take their
coverage with them at the same rate.
“We continue to see employees turning to their employers for
help with their comprehensive workplace benefits and savings needs.
And, while many employers have made changes to their benefit
lineups to help support their employees, workplace benefits remain
complex,” added Kuretich. “As a result, more and more employees are
becoming interested in solutions that help customize their overall
benefits package to their specific needs and preferences.”
The launch of Voya’s new Lifetime Life Insurance solution builds
upon the firm’s broad scope of lifetime-planning services.
Employees enrolled in Lifetime Life will also have access to
bereavement support services, including funeral planning and will
preparation, through Voya’s collaboration with Empathy,** which
helps families prepare for the future and navigate the emotional
and practical challenges associated with loss. Additional support
services, including caregiving concierge services and estate
planning, are scheduled to roll out later this year.
Voya remains focused on offering innovative solutions and
capabilities to help employers and their employees optimize their
workplace benefits and savings needs. Recently, Voya announced the
launch of a refreshed digital absence portal intended to enhance
the leave administration and claims experience for both employees
and employers. Voya has also refreshed its hospital confinement
indemnity insurance offering to include provisions that further
support employees’ mental health — with more solutions and products
specific to mental health rolling out in 2025.
As an industry leader focused on the delivery of benefits,
savings, and investment solutions to and through the workplace,
Voya is committed to its purpose of, together, fighting for
everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
- Samuels, Claire. “Long-Term Care Statistics: A Portrait of
Americans in Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, and Skilled Nursing
Facilities.” APlaceForMom.com, Sept. 13, 2023.
- “Do Consumers Really Understand Long-Term Care Insurance.”
LIMRA, limra.com, Nov. 15, 2022; based on U.S. population estimates
and LIMRA estimates.
- Guaranteed rate applies to base life insurance coverage.
Premiums for the long-term rider may not be fixed and may
increase.
About Voya Financial® Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA)
is a leading health, wealth and investment company with
approximately 9,000 employees who are focused on achieving Voya’s
aspirational vision: “Clearing your path to financial confidence
and a more fulfilling life.” Through products, solutions and
technologies, Voya helps its 15.2 million individual, workplace and
institutional clients become well planned, well invested and well
protected. Benefitfocus, a Voya company and a leading benefits
administration provider, extends the reach of Voya’s workplace
benefits and savings offerings by engaging directly with more than
12 million employees in the U.S. Certified as a “Great Place to
Work” by the Great Place to Work® Institute, Voya is purpose-driven
and committed to conducting business in a way that is economically,
ethically, socially and environmentally responsible. Voya has
earned recognition as: one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®
by Ethisphere; a member of the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; and
a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” on the Disability
Equality Index. For more information, visit voya.com. Follow Voya
Financial on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
*Life Insurance is issued and underwritten by ReliaStar Life
Insurance Company (Minneapolis, MN), a member of the Voya® family
of companies. Group Term Life Insurance Policy form #GLL-POL-23.
Form numbers, provisions and availability may vary by state.
**Bereavement Support, including Funeral Planning & Will
Preparation services, are provided by The Empathy Project, Inc.,
New York, NY. Provisions and availability of each service may vary
by state.
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