By choosing to get your mortgage insurance quote with a standalone payment protection provider you are able to make huge savings on the cost of a policy. You might think that taking the protection offered by the lender when taking out the protection is the cheapest policy; however you will usually pay way over the odds when taking out cover this way. Mortgage protection is taken out to ensure that if you lose your income due to redundancy or accident and sickness you would still be able to continue meeting the demands of your mortgage.
Mortgage insurance is essential when you take into consideration that there has been over 18,000 homebuyers having already lost their homes this year. In total the Council of Mortgage Lenders believe that this will amount to around 45,000 by the end of the year. If you do not want to become a statistic of repossession then it is essential that you protect the repayments of your mortgage.
Lenders will not repossess your home unless they have too but if you get behind by a single missed payment they will send a letter asking when you are able to catch up on the arrears. Of course at the same time you would also have to be able to pay your payments each month and as you were struggling in the first place and got into arrears this would be impossible.
When looking for a mortgage insurance quote there are many factors that have to be taken into account. For starters you will have to decide on the level of protection you want. You are able to take out cover to safeguard against accident sickness and unemployment together, accident and sickness only or unemployment only. You then have to check to see how much of your mortgage payment the provider would allow you to cover. All providers will state up to a certain amount and this is the sum you receive back as a tax free income.
Some providers could offer a policy that would run by providing you with a payment each month for 12 months while others could give 24 monthly payments. There is always a period of waiting with a provider and this too can differ. Some providers will payout an income after you have been unemployed or incapacitated for 30 days and with others it can be as much as up to the 90th day. Once the policy has reached its limit it then ends. During the time of the policy you are able to concentrate on recovering or finding work knowing that your mortgage repayments are safe.
By looking for a cheap mortgage insurance quote and taking out a policy you would not have the worry of getting behind on your mortgage payments. It is a more viable method that relying on savings or help from the State. Even if you managed to be eligible to claim from the State you would only receive help for the interest part of the mortgage and then only up to a certain amount each month. You would also have to wait many months before you would see any money.
Simon Burgess is Managing Director of the award-winning British Insurance (http://www.britishinsurance.com), a specialist provider of low cost income payment protection insurance (PPI), mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) and loan payment protection insurance.
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