Income Protection provides cover if you can’t work due to accident or illness. Redundancy cover is currently unavailable.
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If you are unable to work due to an illness or an accident, income protection insurance can financially support you. It can provide a tax-free salary while you concentrate on improving your health or finding another job.
Income protection insurance pays out a percentage of your estimated monthly salary and can be used to pay the mortgage, loans, council tax, or any other bills you need to cover. This enables you to maintain your standard of living despite not being able to work.
As you can see there is a large discrepancy between the statutory sick pay to which you are entitled and real life living costs! Income protection insurance helps to protect against this
Unfortunately, most employers do not financially support employees after more than a year of sick leave and given the low level of income that statutory sick pay provides, it makes sense to think about protecting your income.
If you are unable to work due to illness of injury, income protection insurance can substitute your salary. There are three fundamental levels of cover which, depending on your situation, payout:
In addition to your occupation cover, your payment amounts will be based on a variety of factors including lifestyle, age and your current health.
The type of monthly premium you choose will also have an effect on your monthly payments:
Guaranteed
A guaranteed premium ensures that you always pay the same sum of money every month, until the policy finishes. This gives you the security of knowing exactly what your monthly payments will be.
Reviewable
A reviewable premium means your rate is reviewed from time to time. This could equate to a rise in costs over the long term ∫∫
Your policy will run until the date of expiry - people usually choose to be covered up to the milestones in their lives such as retirement age, the mortgage end-date, or when their children are likely to leave home.
As long as the policy is valid, it will pay out if you are unable to work after the ‘deferral period’ has been completed.
The deferral period is a pre-agreed length of time after you submit a claim. You may have decided that should you become unable to work, you would not need a pay out until your employers sick pay or your savings ran out.
Alternatively, you may have agreed when taking out the policy that you would need payments to start a month after making a claim.∫∫
There are normally two types of policies you can opt for. One will cover you for a percentage of your salary and the other will cover you for a fixed amount.∫∫
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*https://www.statista.com/statistics/1388245/uk-sick-leave-figures/
**https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay/what-youll-get
∫https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/average-uk-household-budget
∫∫moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/income-protection-insurance-choose-the-right-policy-and-cover
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