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According to broker, My Mortgage Direct, fewer mortgage borrowers are now signing up for life insurance policies in an effort to save cash, homeowners are ditching life cover.
The credit crunch, which has yet to raise prices of life insurance, seems to be influencing borrowers seeking life cover as finances become stretched.
The broker warns that just 20 per cent of new borrowers are opting for life cover to protect their mortgage.
The organisation emphasises the importance of life cover and said borrowers are looking for ways to claw back cash on what they regard as non-essentials and life cover is an easy target.
Cath Hearnden of My Mortgage Direct warns that this is a false economy. Considering the huge financial commitment of a mortgage and what it represents to borrowers’ lives, trying to save a few pounds by going without life cover is a big mistake.
She added: “Of course it’s hard to make ends meet in the current financial climate but it will be a great deal harder for one person to manage the mortgage repayments on their own should their partner die.”
She continued: “Life assurance is not an expensive commitment. In fact premiums have been revised recently and cover can cost considerably less than borrowers might think.
Furthermore, those who already have life cover in place that hasn’t been reviewed for several years could be eligible for a better value policy, either from their current provider or a new deal elsewhere.
For those consumers that already have life cover, possibly through taking out a mortgage loan in the last few years, life insurance policies could be cheaper than they were and consumers could be eligible for a cheaper policy.
A joint policy for a non-smoking couple aged 30 with a £150,000 mortgage could cost around £10 per month. Should one of them die, the policy would pay off the whole of the mortgage, concluded My Mortgage Direct.
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