A permanent alternative to term life insurance, offering death benefit guarantees, the potential for cash value accumulation, and living benefits.
Life insurance can help do many things for the people you care about most. Its death benefit can help replace your income, send your children to college, and allow your family to maintain the lifestyle they're accustomed to. When you want life insurance that can do all this and more, PruLife
® Universal Plus, issued by Pruco Life Insurance Company,
1 may be right for you.
PruLife Universal Plus can also give you guaranteed, conservative cash value growth and the freedom to select payment options to address the demands of your budget. It can give you tax-deferred cash value growth and a generally income tax-free death benefit that will be there when your loved ones need it.
Flexible Premiums and No-Lapse Guarantees
You choose when you want to make premium payments and the amount you'd like to pay, subject to certain limitations. Generally, the more premiums you pay into the policy, the greater your potential to build taxdeferred cash value. Paying too much into your policy can result in tax consequences, so please refer to footnote 2 for more information.
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If guarantees are important to you, you can select one of two guarantees to
protect the policy from lapsing:
- Paying the Short-Term Premium each year will maintain this guarantee for 10 years.
- Paying the Limited Premium each year will maintain a guarantee to the earlier of 25 years or age 75 (but never less than the short-term guarantee period).
If you pay only the Short-Term or Limited No-Lapse Guarantee Premium, you will need to make additional premium payments to keep the policy in force if, at the end of the No-Lapse Guarantee Period, the policy's cash value is zero or less. Also, by paying only the premium required for the No-Lapse Guarantee, you may be foregoing the advantage of building tax-deferred cash value.
All guarantees are based on the claims-paying ability of the issuing company.
Cash Value Accumulation and Access3
Enjoy the potential to accumulate cash value on an income tax-deferred basis.
- Your policy's Contract Fund is credited with a competitive rate. The interest-crediting rate may change, up or down, but will never be less than 2%. Your licensed financial professional can provide you with our current crediting rate.
- Also, after the policy's 10th anniversary, your policy may earn even more interest.
Access your cash value potentially income tax-free.
- The primary purpose of life insurance is to provide a death benefit. However, once your policy has accumulated cash value, you may be able to access that value, potentially income tax-free, through withdrawals or loans. You can use the cash value in your policy to pay for unanticipated expenses or for planned needs, like supplementing your retirement income. It's money to use as you wish.3 Loans and withdrawals may trigger a taxable event. Please refer to footnote 3 for more information.
You can learn more about your policy, its fees, charges, and conditions by reviewing the sales illustration we provide.
Policy Enhancements for Added Value
There are some additional benefits in this policy that can help make a difference in your life—we call these our
Living Benefits.
- If you become terminally ill, are confined to a nursing home, or need a vital organ transplant and meet certain criteria, the Living Needs BenefitSM4 rider can help. The rider, at no additional cost to you, enables you to receive a portion of the death benefit while you are alive to help relieve you of some of the financial burden of a prolonged illness. There are limitations, and this rider is not available in all states. Please refer to footnote 4 for more details.
- If your physician puts you into hospice or nursing home care, the MyNeeds Benefit can help. Should you need a withdrawal from your policy to help ease your life financially, this no-cost rider will waive all surrender and withdrawal charges and fees. It can be a relief to know that, at a time when you need it most, your life insurance policy can answer that call.
- If you suffer a disability (as defined in the rider) and can't pay your premiums, we have an optional benefit that will ensure that your policy will not lapse during that disability. It is called the Enhanced Disability Benefit and can be a comforting addition to your policy. This benefit is available for an additional charge.
A number of other valuable riders and benefits are available on this policy. For a complete listing, please refer to the Product Highlights on the back cover of this brochure.
Part of a Rock-Solid® Tradition
Because
PruLife® Universal Plus is issued by members of the Prudential Financial family of companies, you can rely on us to deliver on our promises. Today, Prudential Financial companies serve millions of customers worldwide.
| Face Amount |
$25,000–$65 million (Subject to underwritin g guidelines) $250,000 minimum for death benefit type C |
| Issue Ages |
0–90 (Limits may apply)
0–75 (Death Benefit Option C) |
| Policy Features |
Flexible premium payments
Two No-Lapse Guarantees
Guaranteed minimum 2% interest-crediting rate
Three Death Benefit types |
| Riders |
Living Needs Benefit SM 5 (Form # ORD 87241)
MyNeeds Benefit Rider (Form # PLI 526-2010; in NY, Form
# PLY 127-2010)
Enhanced Disability Benefit (Form # VL 100 B-2007)
Children Level Term Rider (Form # VL 182 B-2000 and VL
184 B-2000)
Accidental Death Benefit (Form# VL 110 B-2000) (except MA)
Enhanced Cash Value (Form # PLI 496-2006 or PLI 492E-
2007 for option “C” only) (except NY)
Overloan Protection Rider (Form # PLI 518-2008; in NY,
PLY 123-2008)
Rider form numbers can vary by state. Not all riders are available
in all states and some are available for an additional charge. |
| Underwriting |
We underwrite based on age at last birthday and offer good health
credits to individuals with a wide range of medical considerations. |
Please note that all ages and rating classes may not be available.
1 Pruco Life Insurance Company and Pruco Life Insurance Company of New Jersey, 213 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102, are Prudential Financial companies. Each is solely responsible for its own financial condition and contractual obligations. The policy form number is UL-2010 and can vary by state.
2 Excessively funding your policy can cause it to become a modified endowment contract (MEC). Distributions from a MEC (including loans and withdrawals within two years prior to your policy becoming a MEC) are taxed less favorably than those from a policy that is not a MEC. If you take a distribution before you are 591/2, a 10% federal income tax penalty may also apply. A MEC is generally created by paying too much into the policy, but it can also occur if you make certain changes to the policy. Please see your tax advisor for details.
3 Loans are at interest and will void any guarantee against lapse; withdrawals may also impact the length of the guarantee, depending on the amount taken and premiums paid. Taking loans or withdrawals reduces the death benefit and cash value, may make it necessary for you to pay more into the policy than you originally anticipated, and could trigger an unexpected taxable event.
4 The Living Needs Benefit is an accelerated death benefit and is not a health, nursing home, or long-term care insurance benefit and is not designed to eliminate the need for insurance of these types. There is no charge for this rider but, when a claim is paid under this rider, the death benefit is reduced for early payment, and a $150 processing fee is deducted. If more than one policy is used for the claim, each policy will have a processing fee of up to $150. Portions of the Living Needs Benefit payment may be taxable, and receiving an accelerated death benefit may affect your eligibility for public assistance programs. The federal income tax treatment of payments made under this rider depends upon whether the insured is the recipient of the benefit and is considered "terminally ill” or "chronically ill.” We suggest that you seek assistance from a personal tax advisor regarding the implications of receiving Living Needs Benefit payments. This rider is not available in Minnesota to new purchasers over age 65 until the policy has been in force for one year, and the nursing home option is not available in New York or the District of Columbia. This rider is not available in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington state and is currently not available in Florida on Return of Premium Term, on Universal Protector, Universal Plus, or VUL Protector. In Oregon, term policies must include the waiver of premium benefit to be eligible for this rider.
Life insurance policies contain exclusions, limitations, reductions of benefits, and terms for keeping them in force. Your licensed financial professional can provide you with costs and complete details. This material is designed to provide general information about PruLife
® Universal Plus and is not a contract. This brochure is not intended to provide legal or tax advice. Consult your own professional advisors on how this product and its features may benefit your particular situation and how best to utilize any such product. Any information in this document cannot be used by any taxpayer for purposes of avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code.
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Securities and Insurance Products:
Not Insured by FDIC or Any Federal Government Agency. May Lose Value.
Not a Deposit of or Guaranteed by Any Bank or Bank Affiliate.
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