Education Insurance Plan
ICICI Prudential offers an education insurance plans that are designed to provide peace of mind to you, as a parent, that your child's education will be secure. These plans ensure that money is made available at the crucial junctures in a child's education - Class X, Class XII, graduation and post-graduation - to fund crucial commitments for the child's future.
Importantly, education insurance plans ensure that in the unfortunate event of the death of a parent, the child's education continues unhampered.
Under the education insurance plans platform, ICICI Prudential brings the following products to you:-
Plan Name
1. SmartKid New Unit-linked Regular Premium
2. SmartKid New Unit-linked Single Premium
3. SmartKid Regular Premium
Features and benefits of SmartKid
1. SmartKid New Unit-linked Regular Premium
SmartKid New Unit-linked Regular Premium is a unit-linked plan, which enables you and your child to accumulate wealth by virtue of the performance of the underlying market-linked instrument. Features of the plan:
Premium: The minimum premium to be invested is Rs. 10,000 per annum. After deducting premium allocation charges from the premium, the remaining amount will be invested in a fund of your choice.
Sum Assured: The minimum Sum Assured is 5 times of Annual Premium, subject to a minimum of Rs 1 Lac
Policy term: The term of the policy will be calculated as the difference between your child's current age and the age of your child when the policy matures.
Mortality, Policy Administration charges: These and other charges will be deducted from the units in the fund.
2. SmartKid New Unit-linked Single Premium
SmartKid New Unit-linked Single Premium works in much the same way as SmartKid New Unit-linked Regular Premium policy. The only different feature is the premium amount-you will be required to pay only a single premium, which starts at as low as Rs. 50,000.
3. SmartKid Regular Premium
Flexible investment option: Choose the amount of premium with which you wish to safeguard your child's education.
Flexible policy tenure: The tenure of the plan will be calculated as the difference between your child's current age and his or her age at which the policy matures.
Flexible premium options: The premium will be calculated based on 3 factors: Sum Assured, policy tenure and your age.
Guaranteed bonus: A guaranteed bonus of 3.5% per annum is declared for the first 4 premium paying years plus an annual vested bonus declared in subsequent years.
Additional Features and Benefits Common to All 3 Plans
Regular payouts: As your child approaches key educational milestones such as 12th standard or graduation exams, he or she will receive regular payouts, guaranteeing he or she continues to study, no matter what the circumstance.
Death Benefit: Your child will receive the Sum Assured immediately, should something happen to you. ICICI Prudential will pay the remaining premiums, ensuring your child continues to receive policy benefits, as always.
Income Benefit Rider: You can choose to add the benefits of this rider to your child's education plan. Should you depart before your son's or daughter's education is complete, you child will receive 10% of Rider Sum Assured, for the balance term of the policy.
Add-on riders: 'Accidental Death and Disability Rider' and 'Waiver of Premium Rider' ensure your child stays doubly protected, at all times. You can choose to add these to your child's education policy.
Tax benefits: Premiums you pay for a SmartKid policy are eligible for tax savings [u/s 80(C)]. Maturity and death benefits are eligible for tax exemptions [u/s 10(10D)].
