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What is Accident Sickness Unemployment Insurance Cover?

Accident Sickness and Unemployment Insurance cover (ASU) provides a monthly benefit should you be unable to work as a result of illness, accident or lose your job through not fault of your own such as involuntary redundancy. Some policies provide income insurance and others the monthly benefit must be linked to the monthly payments on a debt such as a mortgage plus related expenses. Mortgage linked ASU polices are typically called Mortgage Payment Protection (MPPI).

The nature of the cover is to offer short term financial support. Premiums and the policy terms are typically reviewable monthly meaning the insurance company can alter the cover or premium without your consent just by giving you notice. Income protection insurance offers better terms as cover cannot be cancelled no matter how many claims you make, however does not cover unemployment so you would need two separate policies to be fully covered.

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What Unemployment Providers DON'T Want You to Know?

All Accident Sickness with redundancy insurance policies have a set waiting period (excess) before you can make a claim on the cover. This is typically 30 days with benefits paid back to day 1. However when you first apply for cover the unemployment part has an additional clause which means that this part of the protection is inactive for a set number of months as a result of an "initial exclusion" period to ensure that you cannot claim or put in a claim that is notified to you in this period of first starting your cover.

Example:
Applicant takes out a Accident Sickness & Unemployment policy on 1st Dec 2009. The policy had an initial exclusion of 120 days. Unfortunately their company has on the 3rd Feb. announced that they will be restructuring and as a result redundancies are likely. If the applicant was made redundant as a result of the restructuring NO benefit would be payable as the claim resulted from a change within the first 120 days of the policy starting.

The terms offered by insurance provider under the initial exclusion vary widely, with the best policies stating that you should not be notified officially or unofficially of redundancy and the worst stating the above plus any unemployment which arises from any program of job losses, any departmental or company restructure, or merger with another company, announced by your employer before the start date of your policy, or within 120 days after the start date of your policy. This type of cover should be avoided!


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Income Protection with Unemployment Cover

Get complete peace of mind with Permanent Income Protection (PHI) and the reassurance that your income will continue to be paid if you cannot work as a result of sickness accident or if you are made redundant or unemployed.

  • Up to £4,166 monthly benefit for unemployment cover or accident or sickness (limited to 50% of your income)
  • Premiums are GUARNATEED and will not increase ever!
  • Cover can be index linked
  • No mortgage/loan required
  • Deferred period option of 1, 2, 3 or 6 months
  • Income protection is fully underwritten. Your application is fully underwritten to take account of any current or previous medical problems. This means that when you get acceptance terms you know from the start if there are to be any exclusions on your policy from the start. Unlike typical loan protection or mortgage payment protection from companies that ask only a few questions on your application so they can accept anyone but when you put in a claim it's at that stage when you need money they start asking you and your doctor more questions on your health so that they can avoid paying a claim. Getting your application fully assessed from the start protects YOU!
  • Multi-claim policy
  • Unemployment initial exclusion period ONLY 90 days! for new policyholders. This is waived if you are transferring from another provider.



Why Do I Need Unemployment or Sickness Protection?

If you have arranged you mortgage after Oct 1995 under current DSS regulations you would not be eligible for any mortgage interest support from the government for a period of 9 months. Those that are eligible the DSS will only pay the interest only element of your loan for the first £200,000 of your mortgage.

If your partner works more than 16 hours per week you are unlikely to get any financial support from the DSS.

Its easy to see how quickly you can get into financial difficulty, even if you can access your savings, why should you when the cost of protecting your mortgage payments is so affordable.

Accident Sickness and Unemployment insurance cover has therefore been designed to provide you with temporary cover should you become ill have an accident or become unemployed as a result or redundancy and will normally pay the benefits for a claim period of 12-months.

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What is Not Usually Covered?

Accident Sickness and Unemployment Insurance does not usually cover any medical conditions you know about at the start of the policy. It will not cover every type of illness. You cannot normally claim for unemployment if you:-

  • Resign
  • Accept voluntary redundancy
  • Lose your job because of something you do that breaks the conditions of your employment contract
  • You get notification of redundancy within the initial exclusion period

You usually have to have had the policy for a certain period of time before you can claim from 30 days to 120 days referred to as the (initial exclusion). It is therefore important you read the policy summary and the policy document to check exactly what is and is not covered.

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What You Need to do if You Are Made Unemployed / Redundant

As soon as you are made aware that you are to be made redundant contact the Job Centre for advice and to sign on as seeking work at the earliest opportunity. As most providers will not start processing your claim under unemployment insurance cover until you have registered as seeking employment with the job centre.

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