Free tools/Term conversion deadline
A conversion option expires on whichever contract limit comes first. Enter the policy and the limits it carries, and this works out the binding deadline and how long is left.
Only needed for the attained-age limit below.
Enter the policy's issue date to see the deadline.
This is an estimate, not a contract. It does the arithmetic from the values you enter. Policy terms, carrier rules, and state regulations vary, and the governing document is always the policy contract. Confirm anything you act on with the carrier. Nothing you type here leaves your browser: the calculation runs on your device and Pendwell never receives it.
A conversion option is bounded by whatever limits the contract puts on it, and a policy can carry more than one. The deadline is simply the earliest of them:
Whichever of those lands first is the real deadline, and it is frequently not the one the client assumes. A 30-year term bought at 45 with an attained-age-70 cap is convertible for 25 years, not 30.
Conversion is the largest commission opportunity sitting unworked in most life insurance books, because it pays like new permanent business, requires no new medical exam, and reaches a client who already trusts the agency. It is also invisible: no system flags it, the deadline is buried in the contract, and once it passes it is gone for good.
This tool answers the question one policy at a time. The same arithmetic run across an entire book is what Pendwell Life does, ranked by the commission each opportunity represents, with the outreach written and sent for you.
A term conversion deadline is the last date on which a term life policy can be exchanged for permanent coverage without new underwriting. After it passes, the client has to re-qualify on health, which for anyone whose health has changed means the option is effectively gone.
Take the earliest of the limits the contract imposes: the end of the level term period (issue date plus the term length), an attained-age cap (the date the insured reaches the age named in the contract, sometimes rounded back to the policy anniversary before it), and a policy-year cap (issue date plus the number of convertible years). Whichever comes first is the deadline.
No. Convertibility is a contract feature, and the limits attached to it differ by carrier, product, and issue year. Some policies are convertible for the entire level term, some only for the first few policy years, and some stop at a fixed attained age. Always confirm against the policy contract or the carrier.
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