Question

You and your spouse are in good health and have reasonably secure jobs. Each of you makes about $40,000 annually. You own a home with a $100,000 mortgage, and you owe $11,000 on car loans, $2,000 in personal debt, and $3,000 in credit card loans. You have no other debt. You have no plans to increase the size of your family in the near future. You estimate that funeral expenses will be $5,000. Estimate your total insurance needs using the DINK method.

Answer 1

$63,000

Step-by-step explanation:

One of the four methods of determining insurance if the DINK method which means Double income with no kids.

To estimate the value of the insurance using this method , the sum of , mortgage , car loans and personal debt is divided by two and added to the funeral expenses

Mortgage - 100,000

Car loan - 11,000

Personal debt - 2000

Credit card - 3000

Total = 116,000

Insurance = (116,000/2) = 58,000

Funeral expenses - 5,000

=63,000