re: Whole Life Insurance Policy Question

I'm sure that's a "depends on the policy" question. I know my grandmother had one on me and I got this strange phone call from my mother sitting with the insurance scumbag/salesman. Apparently I needed to pay like 6 months of premiums before it matured and could be cashed out on some policy she'd had on me for like a decade. So $75 later I got a check for $400.