Credit card protection insurance ensures you do not fall into debt
Credit card protection insurance helps to ensure that you would not fall into debt with the repayments of your credit card if you lost your income as a result of becoming unemployed due to redundancy. The policy would be there for you to fall back on if you suffer illness or be involved in an accident which leaves you unable to work.
The payment protection policy that you would need to insure you credit card repayments would provide a pre-agreed sum of money each month which you would then receive back as a tax-free income if you needed to claim on it. You can take out credit card protection insurance with the lender when you take out the credit card. However this is usually the dearest option for taking out protection. You can choose to decline the cover offered by the lender on the high street and instead choose to search around for cheaper premiums yourself. There are specialist independent payment protection providers that would allow you take out protection for a small premium each month which is based on your age and the amount you want to protect of your credit card payments.
British Insurance an ethical payment protection specialist offer credit card protection insurance by that would save you as much as 80% in comparison to the lenders on the high street. They offer cover which is based on age which means that even the younger generation with tight budgets can afford to take out the protection. It is these individuals that often turn to credit cards as a means of making ends meet and to pay bills.
British Insurance would supply the first payment on the credit card protection insurance after the policyholder had been unemployed or incapacitated for a period of at least 30 days on a continual basis. They would back pay the benefit to the first day of unemployment or incapacity and then pay you an income each month for as long as the 12th month. Other independent providers could ask that you defer from putting in a clam on the policy for anything up to the 90th day and some might offer payment protection that would carry on paying out for up to 24 months. Taking out a policy for a small premium is a much more reliable way of protecting the repayments each month than turning to savings. It could also work out better than relying on being able to claim benefits from the State. Often the money the State provides to get you by is very little and it might not stretch to you being able to pay credit card and other bills.
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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.
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