Boosters are additional ways for clients to earn more Wealth Bonus. A Booster is a monetary benefit that will contribute to the client’s overall Wealth Bonus portfolio. Conditions may be attached to these monetary benefits, such as different product holdings, product combinations, premium thresholds, a client’s/product’s qualifying criteria, etc.
Wealth Bonus Booster for Graduates and Professionals is an addition to the existing Wealth Bonus benefits you have. As a graduate or professional life insured, you have an exclusive opportunity to earn more Wealth Bonus through the Wealth Bonus Booster if you have at least two qualifying Sanlam Life products that already earn Wealth Bonus.
This means that in addition to the current Wealth Bonus you receive, Sanlam Life will now also calculate an amount related to the payments made on your qualifying Sanlam Life products where you are a graduate or professional life insured, which will accumulate over time to provide Wealth Bonus Booster.
To qualify for the Booster for Graduates and Professionals, you should meet the following minimum requirements:
You will start qualifying for the Booster on the date that you meet the minimum payment requirement on both qualifying products. We refer to the annual recurrence of this date as the Wealth Bonus Booster anniversary.
The minimum payment requirements depend on the age when you start qualifying for the Booster:
The required minimum payments must be maintained throughout to keep qualifying for Wealth Bonus Booster and to not lose your locked Booster amount. Currently, this requirement will not change as you grow older, which means that if you were younger than 35 when you first qualified, then you do not have to meet the higher minimum payment requirements once you are older than 35.
Only payments that will be used in the Wealth Bonus Booster calculation will be used to determine whether you meet the above minimum requirements. If any Sanlam Reality discount is applicable, the payment before the discount will be used in the assessment.
Yes, qualification is assessed per life insured listed on the plan. The life insured must meet all the criteria as defined here.
Sanlam Life will calculate the potential Wealth Bonus Booster by applying a percentage to each of the payments that qualify for this Booster. This percentage is based on your age next birthday at the time when the payments on the qualifying plans are made, as indicated in the table below.
The percentages in the above table may change from time to time. If this happens, we will inform you accordingly.
When we calculate this Booster, we will grow each payment from the date it has been made with market related interest, after tax.
If the payments of the qualifying plans are not being made due to a waiver of payment claim, an income protector claim, or a payment holiday, we will not include these payments when we calculate Wealth Bonus Booster. If you resume payments at the end of the claim period, it will then again form part of the Wealth Bonus Booster calculation from that point onwards.
Wealth Bonus Booster becomes unlocked at specific times depending on your age next birthday when you first qualified for the Booster. The table below indicates when the Booster will unlock, as well as the percentage of the accumulated Booster that will unlock.
*The Wealth Bonus Booster anniversary is the annual recurrence of the date on which you first qualified for it.
If you are born on 8 March 1994, then your age next birthday calculated on 1 January 2023 is 29 years. So, your ‘age next birthday’ means your age at a particular time with the addition of one year.
You will start qualifying for the Booster on the date that you meet the minimum payment requirement on both qualifying products, from March 2023.
If, at any time, any of the qualifying plans no longer meet the minimum payment requirements due to any of the reasons below, you will lose your locked Booster and not earn any further Wealth Bonus through Wealth Bonus Booster:
If due to a claim or due to a benefit reaching its contractual cease date, the Matrix Premier risk product no longer meets the minimum payment requirements, but payments used in the Wealth Bonus Booster calculation are still being made, either on the Matrix Premier risk plan or the Cumulus Echo RA plan or on both, you will not lose your locked Wealth Bonus Booster. However, if any subsequent alterations, cancellations or lapses result in the payments of the Matrix Premier risk plan reducing further, you will forfeit your locked Wealth Bonus Booster and not qualify for any further Wealth Bonus Booster.
Wealth Bonus Booster is unlocked as a single amount for all the qualifying plans and not as individual amounts per qualifying RA or risk plan. No withdrawals are allowed before the Booster becomes unlocked.
When the Booster is unlocked you can either withdraw the unlocked amount or leave it to earn more growth. If you withdraw any unlocked Booster amount, your Wealth Bonus Booster will be decreased by the amount you have withdrawn. Note that loans against the Booster are not allowed.
Wealth Bonus Booster must be taken in full when it unlocks on its last anniversary on or before your 60th birthday. We refer to this date as the Booster’s final unlock date. Any unlocked Booster amount that is not withdrawn by that date will automatically be paid to you. No Wealth Bonus through Wealth Bonus Booster can be earned after the Booster’s final unlock date.
Yes, the Booster grows at a market-related interest rate.