With a $250,000 policy, that could mean access to an additional $25,000 per year. With a $1 million death benefit, the available sum may be $100,000 per year for 10 years. As with a chronic illness rider, the access to cash value in the policy is through an acceleration of the death benefit that reduces the death benefit accordingly. But imagine what having “life insurance you don’t have to die to use” could do for clients’ financial security when their retirement portfolio may be straining to generate the retirement income they need.