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LIC Pension Plus Plan  Life Insurance Corporation’s Pension Plus plan is a unit-linked deferred pension plan, a type of ULIP, where the premiums paid by you are invested in debt or equity funds. The investment risk in this portfolio is borne by the policyholder as the value of investments may fluctuate depending on the performance of the market. The policy does not offer life insurance cover and once the policy matures or completes the lock-in period, you have to convert at least two-thirds of the amount into an annuity plan. Pension Plus Features: 1. Guaranteed Maturity Proceeds 2. One-third of the corpus can be withdrawn as a lumpsum amount 3. The remaining two-thirds would be paid in either monthly or half-yearly installments after maturity 4. Guarantee of interest rate on Discontinued Policy Fund: 5. Top-up (Additional Premium) : 6. Switching: 7. Partial Withdrawal: 8. Revival: 9. Conversion to annuity: 10. Minimum allocation charge Benefits of LIC Pension Plus:

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