They might be 5 to 25 percent more than a policy without the lifetime benefits.

With lifetime benefits, large amounts are available in short order.

It is possible to get a policy with lifetime benefits but this can be very expensive.

Insurers can no longer set an upper limit on lifetime benefits.

A lot of people thought, and to a degree I did, too, that they were there once you retire as a lifetime benefit.

To him, a federal job with lifetime medical benefits was about as good as it gets.

The best part of such a plan is that the longer you wait to collect Social Security, the higher the lifetime benefit.

The lifetime benefits do little to motivate current management and are another expense for the company, the critics say.

That way, retirees' total lifetime benefits would remain more or less constant even as they lived longer.

After that, you pay $578 per day until the 60 days of "lifetime benefits" run out.