How to Insure Your Income: How to Make an Income Insurance Claim Introduction

Throughout this book, we've considered a number of different kinds of insurance as possible income insurance mechanisms. This makes it difficult to draw general conclusions about how to make claims effectively. Still, in this chapter, we'll consider how to make sure you use income insurance well -- when the time comes to use it.

Since the most specifically appropriate form of income insurance is disability income coverage, we'll start there. This makes sense, because other forms of income coverage -- whether health insurance, life insurance or statutory programs -- tend to follow the basic rules of disability income claims.