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Income Protection Income Protection And Payment Protection More Relevant Than Ever The news of unemployment figures in the UK hitting the 2.62 Million mark and the youth unemployment exceeding the 1 Million mark has not shocked any of the analysts or economists. There is still a lot of fear that the worst is yet to come. Increasing uncertainty about the Eurozone’s ability to contain their debt crisis and the latest forecasts from the Bank of England that the UK economy could stagnate for the first two quarters of 2012 is very worrying, and hence many analysts believe that the worse is yet to come. On one hand people who are currently unemployed are finding it difficult to find a job and the ones who are losing jobs are finding longer than ever to find a new one. If one does not have a large amount of savings, then it is imperative that they should protect their income using a good income protection or payment protection insurance policy in today’s economic climate. Apart from protecting for loss of income due to unemployment or redundancy, income protection and payment protection can also be used to protect loss of income due to an accident or sickness. Increasingly due to austerity measures, several companies are cutting back on what they pay their staff who are long term sick or unable to work due to an accident and hence income protection or payment protection is more relevant than ever. Many people tend to get confused on what income protection covers and what payment protection insurance covers. The difference is really simple – both these policies pay benefits for people who are unemployed or unable to work due to accident or sickness and the only difference is whether the outgoings such as mortgages, loans or rents are used as criteria to cover these eventualities. If the protection is based outgoings such asmortgage, loans rents– the insurance is called as payment protection insurance and if the protection is based on pure income – then it is called as income protection insurance. Payment protection insurance that cover just the mortgages are also referred to as mortgage payment protection insurance. Generally, people who do not have any mortgages, loans or rents tend to prefer income protection and the ones who have a mortgage, loan or rent and can prove their monthly outgoings tend to buy income protection. These policies are also generically referred to as unemployment protection insurance. Both income protection and payment protection are complex products. In many instances, people completely depend these policies to pay their claims when the unfortunate happens and hence rather than going on gut feeling or skim reading policy wordings, it is always advisable to speak to an advisor and do the homework of benchmarking various providers. Many providers such as Best Insurance provide lots of information and downloadable guides on payment protection and insurance protection, such information can be very valuable in making sure that the right things are benchmarked upon before concluding on the provider. Income protection and payment protection also gives a bit of breathing space for people who lose jobs and as finding new ones are becoming difficult, such insurances are becoming more relevant than ever.
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Income Protection
