Eligibility of your policy

You need to determine whether your life insurance policy is eligible for a loan since not all life insurance policies provide this service. For instance, you can take a loan against the surrender value of whole or permanent life insurance and not against term insurance. This is because term insurance doesn’t contain cash value, and they tend to expire at the end of the term without earning returns.  When you are taking up a loan against your term insurance, you are essentially borrowing from yourself. That means you can use the money for any kind of spending and expense without needing to provide and explanation.