Do I Still Need Term Life Insurance?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I'm 59 and my husband is 71, do we still need term life insurance?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Thursday, May 28th, and we're here answering your financial questions. |
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| 0:48.8 | We've got videos all there at jill on money.com. Okay, right now, let's talk to Melissa, who joins us from the Pacific |
| 0:57.8 | Northwest. Hi, Melissa. What's going on? How can we help you out? Jill, Mark, I'm just getting ready to |
| 1:03.5 | retire, and so I've got a few questions about making decisions kind of on term life insurance as well as backdoor Ross. |
| 1:14.3 | Okay, that sounds great. |
| 1:16.3 | So, Melissa, how old are you? |
| 1:18.7 | 59. |
| 1:19.7 | 59. |
| 1:20.6 | Are you married, single, partnered? |
| 1:23.2 | I'm married. |
| 1:24.3 | My husband's retired. |
| 1:25.7 | How old is he? |
| 1:27.1 | 71. Oh, an older man. My husband's retired. How old is he? 71. |
| 1:28.2 | Oh, an older man. |
| 1:30.4 | And he's retired. |
| 1:31.4 | So he is receiving social security, I presume? |
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