Stockholders' Equity and Restrictions (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

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.

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2012		2011
Combined Statutory Stockholders' Equity	(In thousands)
	(Unaudited)
Life insurance operations	$	109,055	114,314
Property insurance operations	5,137		5,113
Total statutory equity	$	114,192	119,427

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2012		2011	2010
Combined Statutory Net Income	(In thousands)
	(Unaudited)
Life insurance operations	$	4,055	6,943	15,563
Property insurance operations	28		469	(7	)
Total statutory net income	$	4,083	7,412	15,556