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Summary

Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Permanent Health Insurance should all be considered by people who have a spouse or children or anyone who works so that they have financial security if they died or could not work. Below we explain what is available and most relevant to you.

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It is shocking but true that one in three of us will suffer some form of cancer before the age of 65. Donna Bradshaw, director at Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) Fiona Price & Partners, says "Thats why protection is imperative – those are not good odds," (best loan)

Life Assurance is the most popular cover taken out although it is debatable as to whether it is the most necessary. Life cover is vital if you have a spouse or dependants but not if you don’t as it pays out after your death. Some people think that they can’t afford to have Life Assurance but the real truth is that they cannot afford not to have it if they have a family to support and protect. RJ Temple reveals in a recent survey that 24 per cent of people with a family don’t know if they have Life Assurance or not and 20 per cent don’t have it.

Many employment packages include life cover but they are generally not enough to provide an income for a spouse with dependants and cover the mortgage too. A standard guideline is to insure yourself for 15 times your income. (home insurance)

Virgin Money’s research has revealed that over the last 15 years the average cost of Life Assurance has dropped 43Percent simply because people seem to be living longer due in part to medical advances allowing sick people to recover from illness that, at one time, they would most likely have died from. Those who already have life cover are possibly not aware of this fact and do not stand to gain anything unless a claim is made so do not need to feel that they have to stay with their existing policy holder – there may well be much better deals around now.

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