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Sickness and Accident Insurance; Unemployment Insurance;
Redundancy Insurance
The
Facts Explained
What is Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance?
Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance promises to make
repayments on your mortgage (and other related expenditures like
building's insurance), in the event of accident, sickness or
unemployment, which is why it's also often called ASU cover.
Will the State help?
State
help to cover mortgage repayments is limited, especially for
anyone who took out their current mortgage after 1995. Then it
only kicks in after nine months and covers the interest cost on
the first £100,000, but not any debts consolidated into the
mortgage (although those with savings over £8,000 or a partner
working more than 16 hours a week are excluded). MPPI is
designed to fill the gap, thus most policies only pay out for 12
months.
How important is MPPI?
There
is no legal requirement to have MPPI, yet it's a profitable
policy for lenders and easy to sell; after all when ‘peace of
mind' and ‘lose your home' are in the same sentence, people get
emotional, falling for the sales patter without checking
policies' suitability. This leaves many at best, expensively
over-covered, and at worst saddled with a policy useless to
them.
Would you get redundancy?
In
the event of unemployment, if you'd get a big payout for long
service, the unemployment element of the cover is often
unnecessary.
Do you get decent sick pay?
If an
accident or sickness stopped you working, what would your firm
do? Many public sector workers get a substantial proportion of
their salary. If you've got good sick pay terms, the accident
and sickness element is probably unnecessary.
Are you self-employed?
Most
but not all policies now cover the self employed, though only if
the business ceases to trade due to circumstances beyond your
control - yet always check.
Got sufficient savings?
MPPI
only lasts a year, so the maximum payout is twelve times your
repayments.
When will it pay out?
Policies normally start paying out 30 or 60 days after the
problem occurs, yet most are now ‘back to day one' which means
they backdate the benefit so you'll be paid out for the earlier
period too.
Policy Periods are limited.
They
only pay out for a limited term, usually 12 months.
There's a maximum payout level.
Many
policies limit the monthly payments covered, often £1,500 or
£2,000 per month.
Further information on Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance
What would happen to you if you were made redundant or suffered
a serious illness or accident which prevented you from working
for some time? How would your finances bear up under the strain?
What is more important, could you continue to make your mortgage
repayments or would your home be at risk?
House prices are currently at a high and for those who have
brought a house in the last few years that can mean a
corresponding high mortgage. A high mortgage will have high
monthly mortgage repayments and can easily eat away any savings
you have. Few who have recently purchased a house will have any
large savings in hand as it is normal practice to use your
savings to increase your deposit on the house and thereby reduce
your mortgage borrowing.
Some choose to rely on state benefits to provide them with a
safetynet in the event of the worst happening but that safetynet
may not always be as reliable as you might think. Your partner
may be in full time work or you may have a level of savings
which stops the state safetynet from fully applying.
Even if you qualify for state assistance it will usually only
assist with the interest part of any mortgage payment and then
be limited to mortgages up to £100,000. Also state assistance
with mortgage repayments will not be available for the first
nine months for those mortgages taken out after October 1995.
Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance (MPPI) is designed to
provide a level of assistance with mortgage and associated
repayments if the insured person is unable to work through
illness, injury of involuntary unemployment.
The monthly benefit payments under the Mortgage Payment
Protection Insurance policy are paid out up to a maximum period
of benefit which is usually either 12 months or 24 months.
The Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance policies usually
charge a fixed premium rate based of the amount of monthly
benefit purchased. There is no loading for smokers, age,
vocation or physical history but please note that it is normal
to exclude Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance cover for
medical conditions which pre-exist the start of the Mortgage
Payment Protection Insurance cover.
The majority of Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance covers
will protect both interest and capital monthly repayments of the
mortgage and under some Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance
policies the benefit amount can include associated costs such as
endowment premiums and house hold insurance premiums.
The most competitive Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance
premiums start at just under £4 per £100 of monthly benefit
although please note that costs do vary within the market. If
you choose a supplier who provides a product based on a
competitive premium rate then you may well be able to protect
your mortgage repayment for a low monthly premium which will not
place your finances under strain.
During the first few years of a mortgage when monthly outgoings
are stretched you may well be advised to shop around to find a
competitively priced Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance
cover. Most mortgage lenders will offer Mortgage Payment
Protection Insurance cover but it may not always be as
competitively priced as similar cover offered by a specialized
Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance broker. So do shop around
and compare what is available in the market so that you know you
are getting a good deal.
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Income Protection Quotes |
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Sickness Insurance Quotes |
Loan Protection |
Mortgage Protection |
Unemployment Insurance |
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Sickness Insurance |
UK Unemployment Insurance |
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