Stockholders' Equity and Restrictions (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]

Statutory Accounting Practices Disclosure

The table below shows the combined total of all of our insurance subsidiaries' capital and surplus and net income (loss) for life insurance operations and property insurance operations, although these amounts are not all available as dividends to Citizens, Inc., because only CICA is directly owned by Citizens, Inc. All other subsidiaries are owned by CICA.



	Years ended December 31,
	2016		2015
Combined Statutory Stockholders' Equity	(In thousands)

Life insurance operations	$	28,009	28,624
Property insurance operations	6,863		6,462
Total statutory equity	$	34,872	35,086

The 2015 surplus amounts have been corrected.



	Years ended December 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Combined Statutory Net Income (Loss)	(In thousands)

Life insurance operations	$	11,987	(7,972	)	(5,821	)
Property insurance operations	401		607		749
Total statutory net income (loss)	$	12,388	(7,365	)	(5,072	)

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of how the entity's reporting under GAAP as of the balance sheet date differs from the results based on prescribed and permitted accounting practices of the state or country of domicile in which a relevant statutory filing is made, or differences in results based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) prescribed practices, or a combination thereof. Describes the accounting practices used and the related monetary effect on statutory surplus, net income, and risk-based capital. If an insurance enterprise's risk-based capital would have triggered a regulatory event had it not used a permitted practice, that fact is disclosed in the financial statements. Permitted statutory accounting practices include practices not prescribed but allowed by the domiciliary state insurance department regulatory authority.

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