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Health & recovery

Critical Illness Insurance

A covered major health event can interrupt income and family plans. Critical illness insurance can provide a lump-sum benefit for a qualifying diagnosis.

Your coverage perspective

Make room for what matters.

A covered major health event can interrupt income and family plans. Critical illness insurance can provide a lump-sum benefit for a qualifying diagnosis.

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The essentials

Make room for
what matters.

A covered major health event can interrupt income and family plans. Critical illness insurance can provide a lump-sum benefit for a qualifying diagnosis.

How to access coverage: Individual and workplace options, subject to state and plan availability.

What it can support

Cash benefit for a covered diagnosis such as a qualifying heart attack or stroke.

How it can help

Flexibility to use benefits for treatment-related or household costs.

Details that matter

Selected plans include specified subsequent-event or surgical benefits.

From coverage to everyday life

See how the conversation unfolds.

Room to focus on recovery

Following a covered heart attack, an employee reduces work while recuperating. A qualifying benefit could help with utilities and uncovered medical expenses. Fictional example; no benefit is assured.

Fictional educational example. It does not represent a customer, approved claim, guaranteed payment, premium, or personalized recommendation.

What to review

Clarity before commitment.

A diagnosis must meet the policy's specific definition.

Recurrence and subsequent-event benefits have their own conditions.

Waiting periods, exclusions and available benefits vary.

Ask for the exact policy or certificate, state-specific premium and effective date before making your decision.

The planning studio

Put your own numbers in perspective.

Explore an expense scenario. The result is a discussion starter, not an estimate of what this insurance would pay.

Adjust the sliders to explore your own scenario.

Your scenario

Resources compared with modeled needs

Illustration · your assumptions

Potential expense planning gap$4,000
Available resources appliedRemaining gap
Illustrated total needs$8,000
Your available resources$4,000

Formula: medical costs + monthly bills × months − available savings, with a minimum of $0. Enter your own assumptions. This does not calculate insurance benefits or premiums. Educational only; not a quote, benefit estimate, or coverage recommendation.

Discuss these priorities

Know before you choose

Good questions. Clearer choices.

Does it cover every serious illness?

No. Only conditions named and defined in the policy qualify.

Is this cancer insurance?

It is a different product. Compare each policy's covered conditions and benefits.

Is the benefit tied to my actual bills?

A lump-sum benefit follows the policy's qualifying event and benefit amount.

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Product and service references: Official Aflac source 1 ↗, Official Aflac source 2 ↗. Reviewed October 12, 2026. Confirm current policy documents with an advisor.

A conversation changes things

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next step a clear one.

Tell us what you want to protect. HQINS can help you explore Aflac coverage, understand the details, and discuss the options available to you.

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