South Carolina § 38-63-560 - Additional benefits and premiums must be disregarded.

§ 38-63-560. Additional benefits and premiums must be disregarded.

Notwithstanding the provisions of SECTION 38-63-530, additional benefits payable: (a) in the event of death or dismemberment by accident or accidental means; (b) in the event of total and permanent disability; (c) as reversionary annuity or deferred reversionary annuity benefits; (d) as term insurance benefits provided by a rider or supplemental policy provision to which, if issued as a separate policy, this article would not apply; (e) as term insurance on the life of a child or on the lives of children provided in a policy, on the life of a parent of the child, if the term insurance expires before the child's age is twenty-six, is uniform in amount after the child's age is one, and has not become paid up by reason of the death of a parent of the child; and (f) as other policy benefits additional to life insurance and endowment benefits, and premiums for all these additional benefits, must be disregarded in ascertaining cash surrender values and nonforfeiture benefits required by this article, and these additional benefits are not required to be included in any paid-up nonforfeiture benefits.

HISTORY: Former 1976 Code SECTION 38-7-60 [1960 (51) 1554; 1962 Code SECTION 37-175.1; 1964 (53) 2139] recodified as SECTION 38-63-560 by 1987 Act No. 155, SECTION 1.