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For how long will the policy continue to pay your mortgage?
The Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance will pay your mortgage for up to 12 months or up to when you return to work, whichever is the sooner.
What is Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance?
Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance pays your monthly mortgage repayment if you were off work due to sickness, accident, or unemployment. (Don’t forget that your home is at risk if you fail to keep up the repayment of loans secured against it.)
How Much Should You Insure For?
For mortgage protection purposes the initial sum insured must always equal the capital sum outstanding on your mortgage. You should also insure yourself for the same number of years that are remaining on your mortgage.
Should I include Terminal Illness Insurance?
Terminal Illness Insurance is generally included at no extra cost on all Mortgage Life, Life and Critical Illness policies.
Will you have to pay a fee to your mortgage lender if you don’t buy your Life Insurance through them?
No! By law mortgage lenders are not allowed to charge a fee if you choose to shop elsewhere.

Why should you have Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance?

Your home is at risk if you fail to keep up the repayment of loans secured against it.

When you take out a mortgage you are committing yourself to meeting the monthly repayments and paying back the capital you borrowed. Most people take out their mortgage for many years, typically 20 or 25 years, and during that time there are certain to be changes in their financial circumstances.

We all hope that as the years go by, your finances become stronger but what would happen if you were off work? Would you have enough put by to continue paying the mortgage? Because if you don’t your home is at risk.

We think it makes sense to put these worries behind you by taking out insurance that continue to pay your monthly mortgage payments if you were off work. When you’re well settled in your job and healthy, the idea of spending money like this may seem unnecessary even unwelcome. But as we all know and often choose to ignore, things can change quickly.

Consider the following: -

  • Over the last five years 28 % of people have been off work for more than a month due to illness or accident.
  • Over the last five years 9 % of people have been off work for more than 3 months due to illness or accident.
  • One in three people aged between 25 and 34 have experienced unemployment for more than a month.
  • Every day 500 people in the United Kingdom become unemployed and 60% of unemployed men and 45% of unemployed women will be out of work for six months or more.
  • Around 80 homes are repossessed every day. The majority of such repossessions being largely due to unemployment.

We say - better safe than sorry! Take out Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance!

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