Transamerica Life Insurance

I have made complete on time payments for over 13 years, Jan 2020 I faxed in surrender papers, to surrender my policy. Policy was canceled on Jan 23. Now it's March 17 2020. After several calls with excuses every time, to days was a confirmation letter was mailed last Friday 13 and the check still not mailed. Told it would be mailed within 5 business days. This tells me I stopped making money on 1/23. And they are making money From then to the day the check get to me and cashed. This should be my Money. Unethical. Unfair, will never use again.

This company does not send any representative out to you. It's all on the phone after you fill out lengthy stuff online. Then you will have a person to take blood and hand you a large stack of paperwork. The nurse can not explain anything to you {it's not her job). It is up to you to figure it all out.. Now I used to sell life insurance years ago and even with that I was confused. But I managed> now imagine for anyone who has not seen the paperwork before?

Nothing about this claims process has gone well. Call-in hold times of 5 to 10 minutes. Sent forms in but then told I needed to send the same forms. Received a letter telling me to fill out sheets 3 thru 9 but the letter only had 3 pieces of paper enclosed! The instructions sheet was illegible because the water mark blanked out the text! I kid you not! The eventual claimant package that I received in the mail was so complicated that I had to call an attorney to get help filling it out. I would never use Transamerica for anything and would never recommend them to anyone! Stay away!

I can tell you how Transamerica about to make a 95 year old lady homeless. This fine lady's Medicare benefits are about to run out and she needs to be switched to Medicaid. She has to do what is called a "Spend-down" of what little assets she has to qualify. Her family and I have been back and forth with Transamerica for at least 10 days trying to get this accomplished. When you call them ask for HEATHER... Seems to be the kindest most compassionate person working there and in the entire corporate insurance world for that matter. (Heather, They don't pay you enough and the need 10 more people just like you).

It was only later that it bothered me over this policy I'd signed up for. Originally, an agent come to the apartment to get a signature from my roommate on a death benefit policy. Her son had filled one out for her with an agent at his house and then agent came over to make sure it got signed. I was my housemate's caregiver at the time, and cautioned her about signing on something that she never ordered or even knew about. Her son was blatantly after her money, snagging her Social Sec whenever he could, after their bills got paid Naturally his being a beneficiary on a policy he solicited was no surprise. I had the agent tear it up, since she wouldn't sign it, despite the obvious attempt at a money grab by her son. He seemed properly mortified that her son would do such a thing, which mollified me at the time.

Was offered a group accident life benefit through Wachovia Bank... before I decided to leave this bank to go to State Employees Credit Union I asked if I could keep the policy was told I could set up automatic drafts. Had paid on the policy for 10 years only to call to update my beneficiary information and was told that the policy had been canceled. The only thing I got from their customer Representatives was that they were sorry, (why) because you know the company you work for committed fraud. Yes my premiums were only 3.15 a month but for 10 years I paid it religiously and now they just cancelled my policy without even notifying me! I will never do business with this company again!

I have never had a bad experience with this company. I left a company that I had been with for almost 10 years and had a 401k with. I fell into a hardship and needed funds. Although I wasn't able to get the amount back that I thought I would (due to my company somehow signing me up for the wrong type of retirement plan) Janae helped explain everything to me, letting me down easy and also helped by calculating what I could expect to get if I did the early withdrawal. She spent almost an hour with me answering all my questions. And when working in a call center, that takes patience and can be scary if the call center is hounding for quick calls for their "good stats". I spoke with her supervisor after and expressed my gratitude for Janae's patience and kindness as well as her genuine care for my situation as well as her walking me through the website to get things handled.

I've had a term life insurance with TransAmerica since 1995. No longer needing it, in Oct 2019, I exercised surrender of my policy for the cash value of nearly $22,000. I completed the required paperwork which they accepted and wrote me that I would receive payment in 2-4 weeks. It is now Jan 2020 and I still have not received the check. So far I've made 9 calls to them. Each time they give me an excuse. The first was that they are having trouble calculating the tax to deduct. Other calls resulted in them telling me the check is in the mail. I've now had to go to the State of Iowa insurance regulating agency to help. These people are as crooked as can be. THEY EVEN LIED TO THE REGULATOR telling him they resolved the issue. Avoid TransAmerica Life Insurance Company like the plague unless you just like giving your money away!

This is one of the worst companies ever! My mother died in October 2019. She had been sick the past few years with cancer and her papers weren't together. She told me she had a work life insurance policy with these people. I had her policy number so I called them twice. The first rep barely spoke English, was rude and nasty and not all sympathetic. He claimed my mother's policy was cancelled the previous year, due to her not paying the annual premium. He then yelled at me when I asked to speak to a supervisor. I'm Deaf and his thick accent was causing hardship. He then REFUSED to get his supervisor and HUNG UP on me! I waited, consulted an attorney who has dealt with this horrible company before, and I contacted them again. Same story, but they then changed it, claiming they sent my mother a check the month after they "cancelled" the policy.

I paid on a small $43K Life Insurance Policy for over 15 years. When I retired, Transamerica raised the premium, no surprise. However, they raised the premium to thousands a year. Over the past two years, especially, the bills started soaring. (In my opinion, this is done to get someone on a fixed income to drop the policy before the company has to pay on it.) I repeatedly asked for the total cost of the premium for 2019 so I could decide whether to continue the policy. They refused to give me the information, only telling me to file a form to have my quarterly premiums raised so I would not go into default.