Major components of contractholder funds in the consolidated statements of financial position are summarized as follows:

	December 31,

	2011		2010
	(in millions)
Liabilities for investment-type insurance contracts:
GICs	$	11,355.0	$	10,013.6
Funding agreements		8,850.1		10,226.9
Other investment-type insurance contracts		789.7		758.6

Total liabilities for investment-type insurance contracts		20,994.8		20,999.1
Liabilities for individual annuities		11,609.5		11,721.0
Universal life and other reserves		5,072.1		4,581.0

Total contractholder funds	$	37,676.4	$	37,301.1

Our GICs and funding agreements contain provisions limiting or prohibiting early surrenders, which typically include penalties for early surrenders, minimum notice requirements or, in the case of funding agreements with survivor options, minimum pre-death holding periods and specific maximum amounts.

Funding agreements include those issued directly to nonqualified institutional investors, as well as under five separate programs where the funding agreements have been issued directly or indirectly to unconsolidated special purpose entities. Claims for principal and interest under funding agreements are afforded equal priority to claims of life insurance and annuity policyholders under insolvency provisions of Iowa Insurance Laws.

Principal Life was authorized to issue up to $4.0 billion of funding agreements under a program established in 1998 to support the prospective issuance of medium term notes by an unaffiliated entity in non-U.S. markets. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, $1,377.2 million and $2,055.4 million, respectively, of liabilities are outstanding with respect to the issuance outstanding under this program. Principal Life was also authorized to issue up to Euro 4.0 billion (approximately USD$5.3 billion) of funding agreements under a program established in 2006 to support the prospective issuance of medium term notes by an unaffiliated entity in non-U.S. markets. The unaffiliated entity is an unconsolidated special purpose vehicle. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, $1,305.7 million and $1,340.0 million, respectively, of liabilities are outstanding with respect to issuances outstanding under this program. Principal Life does not anticipate any new issuance activity under either of these programs due to the existence of the program established in 2011 described below.

In addition, Principal Life was authorized to issue up to $7.0 billion of funding agreements under a program established in 2001 to support the prospective issuance of medium term notes by an unaffiliated entity in both domestic and international markets. The unaffiliated entity is an unconsolidated special purpose entity. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, $2,205.0 million and $2,224.7 million, respectively, of liabilities are being held with respect to issuances outstanding under this program. Principal Life does not anticipate any new issuance activity under this program, given our December 2005 termination of the dealership agreement for this program and the availability of the program established in 2011 described below.

Additionally, Principal Life was authorized to issue up to $4.0 billion of funding agreements under a program established in March 2004 to support the prospective issuance of medium term notes by unaffiliated entities in both domestic and international markets. In February 2006, this program was amended to authorize issuance of up to an additional $5.0 billion in recognition of the use of nearly all $4.0 billion of initial issuance authorization. In recognition of the use of nearly all $9.0 billion, this program was amended in November 2007 to authorize issuance of up to an additional $5.0 billion. Under this program, both the notes and the supporting funding agreements were registered with the SEC. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, $2,452.5 million and $3,597.8 million, respectively, of liabilities are being held with respect to issuances outstanding under this program. In contrast with direct funding agreements, GIC issuances and the other three funding agreement-backed medium term note programs described above, Principal Life's payment obligations on each funding agreement issued under this SEC-registered program are guaranteed by PFG. Principal Life does not anticipate any new issuance activity under this program due to the existence of the program established in 2011 described below.

Principal Life was authorized to issue up to $2.0 billion of funding agreements under a program established in 2011 to support the prospective issuance of medium term notes by an unaffiliated entity in both domestic and international markets. The unaffiliated entity is an unconsolidated special purpose entity. As of December 31, 2011, $250.2 million of liabilities are being held with respect to any issuances outstanding under this program. Similar to the SEC-registered program, Principal Life's payment obligations on each funding agreement issued under this program are guaranteed by PFG. The program established in 2011 is not registered with the SEC.

Activity associated with unpaid disability and health claims is summarized as follows:

	For the year ended December 31,

	2011			2010		2009
	(in millions)
Balance at beginning of year	$	1,061.8		$	1,025.6	$	991.8
Incurred:
Current year		1,074.0			1,611.9		1,888.3
Prior years		(10.8	)		11.1		(33.4	)

Total incurred		1,063.2			1,623.0		1,854.9
Payments:
Current year		820.8			1,269.4		1,507.1
Prior years		297.3			317.4		314.0

Total payments		1,118.1			1,586.8		1,821.1
Balance at end of year:
Current year		253.2			342.5		381.2
Prior years		753.7			719.3		644.4

Total balance at end of year	$	1,006.9		$	1,061.8	$	1,025.6

Supplemental information:
Claim adjustment expense liabilities	$	42.9		$	42.7	$	40.7
Reinsurance recoverables		1.1			1.6		3.7

Incurred liability adjustments relating to prior years, which affected current operations during 2011, 2010 and 2009, resulted in part from developed claims for prior years being different than were anticipated when the liabilities for unpaid disability and health claims were originally estimated. These trends have been considered in establishing the current year liability for unpaid disability and health claims.