1st Call Claims - Payment Protection Insurance
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) is big business, with an estimated 25 million policies in circulation worth £5 billion a year.
PPI can be added to loans, credit cards, HP agreements and mortgages and in theory should cover the monthly repayments if you are unable to work due to an accident, sickness or unemployment. PPI has been proven to be widely mis-sold, is usually overpriced and policy terms and conditions show it would be extremely difficult to claim against when needed.
In some extreme cases PPI has been identified to equate to as much as 54% of the total claim value. On a £10,000 loan that amounts to £5,400!
Credit Card PPI is usually calculated as a percentage of the total balance so the more you owe the more you pay for PPI.
With so many lenders in the market place and each one trying to set themselves apart from the other different terminology has been used for PPI. This doesn't pull the wool over our eyes and some of that terminology to look out for can be seen below;
- MPPI (Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance)
- Premium Protection Insurance
- Accident Sickness and Unemployment Insurance
- Accident Sickness and Redundancy Insurance
- Premium Protection Insurance
- Income Protection Insurance
- Mortgage Payment Protection
- Mortgage Payment Insurance
- Loan Protection Insurance
- Credit Care Insurance
- Credit Care