How Much Will Income Protection Cost?

You can have Short Term Income Protection Insurance for either unemployment alone, or sickness and accident alone, or all three. The costs of the policies is much lower than you'd expect.

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What is Short Term Income Protection Insurance?(Also known as Accident Sickness and Unemployment Insurance)
Short Term Income Protection Insurance pay a tax free monthly income for up to 12 months if you were off work due to sickness, accident, or unemployment.
Will Short Term Income Protection Insurance pay out immediately you make a claim?
You have to be off work for 30 days before you can make a claim but the income is then backdated to the very first day you were off work.
You want to ensure that you receive a monthly income if you became sick, unemployed or had an accident for as long as you were off work (i.e. no limit of 12 months) or until the insurance policy finished whichever came sooner.
You need Permanent Health Insurance.
For how long will the policy continue to provide income
Short Term Income Protection Insurance will provide income if you are off work and the income will continue for up to 12 months or cease when you return to work, whichever is the sooner.
Will a claim under a Short Term Income Protection policy affect any State benefits to which you may be entitled?
No. Whilst your Short Term Income Protection policy replaces part of your income, the insurance payouts you receive do not qualify as income in the eyes of the Benefits Agency or the Inland Revenue.
Your premiums is normally costed at a "rate" per £100 of the monthly income you want insured. You can get a quotation online in minutes by clicking on get a quote.

Assuming you can afford it, we believe that it makes great sense to insure for disability and unemployment because: -

  • Over the last five years 28 % of people have been off work for more than a month due to illness or accident.
  • 1 in 3 people aged between 25 and 34 have been unemployed for more than a month.

 

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