Mortgage protection UK cover needs to be considered by all homeowners who have to maintain mortgage repayments over several years. Just a single missed payment on the mortgage and you would receive a letter from the lender. More missed payment and no way of catching up on the arrears and you would be at risk of losing your home. You could at anytime lose your income as the result of an accident or sickness or you could be made redundant.
You would save money if you applied for a mortgage protection UK policy with an independent provider instead of taking the cover out alongside the mortgage. If you chose leaders in payment protection insurance British Insurance as your provider you could save as much as 40% on the premiums which are based on age, the level of cover needed and amount you insure. You could take out cover for accident, sickness and unemployment together, accident and sickness alone or unemployment alone. You would insure up to a pre-agreed amount of your mortgage repayment and then claim this back as a tax-free income if you needed to make a claim. The income you received from the cover would go a long way towards you being able to maintain your repayments and so keep the roof over your head.
Ethical payment protection provider British Insurance would begin to payout on your protection once you had been unemployed or unable to work as the result of accident or sickness for a period of 30 days. They would back pay on the protection to the first day of you falling ill, suffering an accident or becoming unemployed. You would then have up to 12 months in which to make a recovery from incapacity or find work in the case of unemployment before the protection ceased. If you shop around with other payment protection providers you could find that some would begin to payout on their protection once you had been unemployed or incapacitated for at least a period of 90 days. You would have to check out the small print to find this and you would also need to check the small print to determine how long the protection would pay as some might offer to continue providing you with an income for up to 24 months.
A mortgage protection UK policy is a better form of a back up plan than relying on being able to claim money from the State. You would have to be eligible to claim money from them and even if you were you would only get a payment up to so much to go towards the interest part of the mortgage repayment and not the capitol. Currently you would also have to wait for several months before you would see any money and by this time you could already be in mortgage arrears. It is also better than relying on any savings to continue financing your mortgage repayments. You would not know how long savings would have to be relied upon and therefore they might deplete before you found work or made a recovery.
For many years I have been a staunch campaigner against the major names in finance who, I believe, rip-off their customers by selling over priced, often unsuitable payment protection insurance (PPI) cover.