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Lots of adults now have critical illness insurance, but what about the children?

If you were unfortunate enough for your child to develop a critical illness it is very likely that you would need considerable time off work and probably a great deal of extra help too. If there are other children in the family, there will no doubt be child care costs to consider whilst you’re attending to a very sick child.

Insurance cover for children can start as early as 3 months of age with some insurance companies, although you may have to wait until the child is three before cover starts with others. Fortunately, with most policies, it’s standard practice to include your children, but you need to check on this to make sure. It is possible that your insurer will not offer this cover at all - National Westminster, Halifax and Nationwide Life being three of these.

If your insurers do cover your children within your policy, they will automatically cover all of them, so once the policy is in force there is no need to inform the insurer of the addition/s to your family. Similarly when you start your family the child will be automatically included when he or she reaches the specified age.

Assuming you are covered, the way critical illness cover works for your child is that a tax free lump sum will be paid out if your child is diagnosed with a really serious illness. This will need to be one included in the policy schedule. There is a proviso that the child survives at least 4 weeks from the date of the illness being diagnosed.

The usual payment is a proportion of the total insured value. If the insured total value is say

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There are many factors, out of your control that can make you unable to repay your loans. You might become sick or get involved in an accident that takes you out of work for an extended period of time. Maybe your employer has to cut back and make wage decreases or lay-offs. If you are working for your self then maybe business is not going well and you are not earning as much as you had hoped. It could even be that your expenses have risen or interest rates have risen and this has made it difficult to make repayments.

Many of us worry about these possible outcomes. Some of us, especially if we have borrowed a lot and are already close to our repayment capacity may be losing sleep over it. People who are elderly and close to retirement, or those with young children also may worry a lot about such issues.

Loan Insurance

It is for this reason that insurers offer loan insurance. Loan insurance is a policy that protects against the possibility that you will not be able to make your repayments. You will usually be offered it every time you take on credit. You should know that you are not obliged to take loan insurance and you cannot be denied credit for not taking it. If you do wish to take it out, you should shop around and not take it from the first insurer you come across. Rates vary widely and it certainly pays to shop around.

If you have loan insurance you can rest a little easier knowing that if certain events outside of your control occur you loans will be repaid by the insurance company. Events included would be illness, accident or job loss not of your fault, among others. You should also be aware of the conditions and exclusions however before you agree to such insurance. It is a fact that many people pay for loan insurance without much prospect of ever benefiting from it; often without even knowing they have it. This is because lenders are anxious to add it to your account as a way of increasing revenues.

Be Aware

Some policies will require for example that you accept the first job you are offered after losing your job. This can be very impractical for a person who may have had a very good job and now is offered a much lower paying one. They know that if they continue their search they will find a better job but their insurance wants them to take up the first one.

Always be aware of what you are paying for with insurance. Be aware of the exclusions and if you don’t want the insurance, don’t buy it. If it has been added to your account without your permission, call your creditor and have it cancelled immediately.

Joseph Kenny is the webmaster of the loan information sites http://www.selectloans.co.uk/ and also http://www.ukpersonalloanstore.co.uk. At the Personal Loan Store you can find all the different loan types explained.

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In common with the rest of Europe, life expectancy in Britain is increasing. A man can now expect to live to 76.2 years and a woman to 80.7 years. This is wonderful news, but unfortunately we also learn that Britain is not keeping pace with most of Europe in another health aspect.

Healthy life years, as well as life expectancy have been the subject of a recent EU study and the results were based on questionnaires which were completed by some 60,000 householders. The focus of the study was on death, sickness rates and overall health.

We learn that although the average British male can expect to live to 76.2 years of age, he can only expect 61.5 of these years to be free from a disabling condition. This puts us in the unfortunate position of being the fifth unhealthiest group in the EU.

Research into these findings, still at an early stage, has not yet found the reasons for the wide variations across the EU. It seems that as far as cardiovascular disease is concerned, there is an increasing risk the further north you go and Help the Aged feel that a lack of respect for the cold in Britain constitutes a risk to health.

Italy holds the top position in the healthy living stakes, with an expectation of 70.9 healthy years and a life expectancy of 76.8 years. The healthy Italian diet, including lots of fish, vegetables and unsaturated fats, may be a key factor in their country’s excellent health record. A spokesman for Help the Aged comments that diet, smoking, the weather, smoking and health service could help to explain the differences

Interestingly, in a published table showing both healthy years and life expectancy, as far as healthy life goes, Italy tops the table, followed by Spain, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, UK, France, Hungary, Portugal and Finland. It will be interesting to see what the final conclusions turn out to be.

At the bottom of the scale - if you come from Finland, life expectancy for a woman is 81.8 years, but you can only expect 56.5 of these to be without a disabling condition.

Bearing all these facts in mind, it’s obvious that, for Mr and Mrs Average, it would be as well to give some serious thought to the provision of both critical illness cover and life insurance. It’s a serious thought that the expectation of a disabling health condition precedes retirement age by between three and half and eight and a half years. Many men now expect to be able to work until they are 70.

Critical illness insurance will pay out a specific sum if you’re unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with one of a list of specified conditions, such as cancer, stroke or heart trouble. Read the policy carefully to check which conditions are covered. The effect of critical illness on your lifestyle can be immense. You may have to adapt your car or your home and even change your employment to suit your new circumstances. Critical illness cover will give you peace of mind should illness strike.

As far as your family are concerned, it would be a good time to take out, or review, your life insurance plans. Would their lifestyle be affected should the worst happen?

Both of these insurances can be taken care of easily. The internet is the place to go for immediate attention and a range of competitive quotations. Contact an on-line broker, who’ll offer you all the help you need.

Then sit back and prove the tables wrong.

Life insurance professionals great articles based around life assurance.

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