Payable On Death - POD

Categories: Insurance

See: Life Insurance.

It's payable upon death. There are other contracts that carry the same lofty financial gravitas. But the term almost always refers to life insurance which is, in many forms, a very simple contract: You pay money into the system for some period of time, and your loved ones get the payout from your policy when your ticker...stops ticking.



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