Insurance questions to strengthen your cover
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Not many like to read the fine print, so here are a couple of headline issues to review with your adviser.
Are you paying too much for life insurance?
- You may have extra policies in super you are not aware of.
- You may have insurance you can’t claim on because of other offsetting cover.
- You may have cover that is more expensive than it needs to be.
- Industry super cover used to be cheap as chips. Now it’s champagne.
What is covered? What is excluded?
- Make sure your cover gives you the protection you need.
- If you’re single with no debts then do you need life cover? What you might need is income and illness protection.
- Check your policy has the modern illness definitions.
- Recent evidence at the royal commission highlighted a claim declined based on 20 year old cancer treatment definitions.
Default insurance – “I’m ok there’s insurance in my super”.
- These default schemes are an enormous money spinner for the life insurers.
- Check the loadings. Some default schemes class everyone as blue collar and a smoker.
- If you’re neither you could be on a cheaper premium.
- Don’t get caught out by pre-existing medical conditions which may void your policy.
Do my insurances overlap?
- Quite possibly.
- If you’re crook and not at work, you can claim on your income cover, and if its critical illness then also your trauma cover.
- The older you get its statistically more likely that illness rather than accident will be your downfall.
- Spend your premiums wisely.
This is general advice only and does not factor in your particular personal circumstances.
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