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LIFE, the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, offers a free educational program designed to teach young people about life, health, and disability income insurance. Next Generation: Insuring Your Future is a multimedia insurance education program that consists of a 21-minute video, teacher’s guide, student magazine, and classroom-size poster. The program is distributed by Video Placement Worldwide and can be ordered online from their Web site at www.vpw.com. For more information about the program call (888) 2NXTGEN.

The Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education Web site, www.life-line.org, provides information, such as types of insurance, choosing an agent, and needs analysis, for life, health, and disability insurance.

Links to various health Web sites may be accessed at www.healthseek.com.

The Web site www.insweb.com acts as a virtual, personal insurance agent and provides cost information on many kinds of insurance. It also has a number of estimator, analyzer, and calculator tools for figuring the cost of auto, life, home, renters, and health insurance.

www.jumpstartcoalition.org The Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of young adults. Its purpose is to evaluate the financial literacy of young adults; develop, disseminate, and encourage the use of guidelines for grades K-12; and promote the teaching of personal finance. Its Web site provides a searchable database of educational materials for the K-12 age group. (888) 45-EDUCATE.

www.ncfe.org is the Web site for the National Center for Financial Education. It is a consumer-oriented, nonprofit, public education organization that offers articles and worksheets on topics, such as spending perception and creating a spending plan

Information on Medicare can be found at the Social Security Administration Web site, www.ssa.gov/mediinfo.htm.

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