Income Insurance Protection Against Unemployment is Valuable

By Simon Lance Burgess

Income insurance protection against unemployment is an extremely valuable form of protection to have and rely on. With no ones job being safe thought has to be given as to how you would be able to manage if you lost your income. While some individuals rely on savings or benefit from the State to get them by, many times they are let down by the fact that savings run out before you get back to work or find work, and you might not be eligible to claim State benefit.

While there are exclusions that have to be checked with income insurance protection if you go with an ethical standalone provider they add in just a few. You do have to check the terms and conditions of any cover you are comparing along with the cost of the insurance as exclusions vary depending on the provider and premiums vary.

Providers usually offer policies that would pay out an income tax-free after between 30 and 90 continuous days of unemployment or incapacity. Some will backdate the policy to the first day of incapacity of unemployment but you have to check the terms and conditions of the cover to find this out. You would then be able to benefit for between 12 and 24 months again depending on the provider, however after this period of time the policy would then cease. Usually this is ample time to have found another position or to have made a full recovery and be able to go back to work.

You would be able to keep on top of your mortgage repayments with the money you received each month. This would mean that you would not get into arrears with your mortgage and have to worry about finding the money to catch up. If you were not able to catch up on the arrears then you would find the lender taking you to court and this could mean that the lender will repossess your home. You would then have to leave everything you had built up over the years.

Of course your income insurance protection against unemployment will allow you to keep up with other requirements that you have to make each month including any loan or credit card outgoings. Getting behind into debt means that you would at the very least see your credit rating being affected. As all lenders take your credit rating into account when choosing to give you credit or not this means that obtaining credit could be very hard and in the worst case the lender could take you to court. This would mean that you could gain a County Court Judgement against you.

Taking out your income insurance protection against unemployment with a specialist in payment protection is the cheapest way to get your policy. It is also the best way to obtain all the information needed for you to be able to understand what you are taking on. Do not get income payment protection confused with income protection insurance as while both policies are similar, income protection insurance pays out in the long term and does not cover unemployment.

Simon Burgess is Managing Director of the award-winning British Insurance, a specialist provider of income insurance protection unemployment.