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Insurances, savings tips

  • Monday, July 20th, 2009 at 10:11 am

Everyone know’s not to accept the renewal price from your existing provider on your Car insurance and home insurance. After mortgages, this is the best area to reduce your outgoings by seeking alternative quotes. According to the Daily Mail, On average you will save £214 by shopping around, while your home insurance premium tumbles from £368 to £227. The internet makes it incredibly simple to find quotes, and if you don’t spend at least one lunch hour a year finding a better deal then you have too much money.

1. Investigate your Loan protection insurance
Too expensive and agressively sold, PPI is one of the most lucrative products created by the finance industry. It can add £3,000 to the cost of a £7,500 Personal loan. But many people were sold it who can’t possibly make a claim against it these people are abel to demand their money back again.

Lots of claims companies advertise on daytime television, promising to obtain you a refund but they will take 25% of whatever you win. Instead, call the FOS which is currently upholding around four out of five complaints about being missold PP . Helpfully, it offers a factsheet on how to make a complaint about PPI which you can find at financialombudsman.org.uk

2. Cancel your mobile phone insurance
It is common for people to be are strongly pressured in phone shops into spending between £50 and £70 a year on this kind of insurance. But the benefits are minimal: most won’t cover you for the only major risk, airtime abuse (if your phone is ued to call overseas, and if you lose your phone you can always claim for it under your home contents cover for personal belongings.

Cancel your direct debit with the bank and the insurance will lapse.

3. Rethink your life insurance
Life insurance is not for life. Just because the life cover was sold to you by the provider of your mortgage you don’t need to to stick with that provider for the life of the home loan. You have the option to cancel at any time to get a cheaper quote. With the human lifetime improving (ie. fewer people dying), the insurers have been reducing premiums for many years.

If you are in a job at a big employer, it is likely to offer “death in service” benefit worth at least three times your annual salary, and often more. Do you really need all that life insurance cover on top as well?

4. Don’t pay for travel insurance you don’t need
Step 1 Obtain a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) from ehic.org.uk or at your local Post Office. This has replaced the old E111 forms and gives you reducedcost or free medical treatment in EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. You may even obtain treatment faster, as you won’t have to rely on a hospital waiting to receive authorisation to treat you from an insurer.

Step 2 Check your home insurance policy. most cover your belongings ouside your house.

Step 3 Check your health insurance policy, if you have one. These requently cover the costs of treatment incurred abroad. For most holidaymakers, who travel to southern Europe once a year, the only real benefit that travel cover brings is cover in the event of a cancellation. Is that worth the premiums.

If traveling outside the EU you must have travel isnurance If you go away more than once a year it is best to take a annual policy don’t pay for what you don’t need. For example, if you don’t ski or snowboard, you don’t need winter sports cover.

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