1Social Security Administration, Office of Reasearch & Statistics, May 2006 - Income of the population of 55 or older table 31, 2006 Bureau of Census, April 2006. We assume financial dependence is income less than $50,000.
2LIMRA International, U.S. Marketplace Individual Financial Product News, Would You Believe 25 Times Income, James O. Mitchell, September 2002
3Trends in Life Insurance ownership among U.S. Individuals, LIMRA 2005
4Table 5.9 "Payments to Life Insurance Beneficiaries, by Year" as shown in the 2006 Life Insurance Fact Book from the ACLI.