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Mortgage protection insurance
Help you and your loved ones keep your home with life insurance and critical illness cover from Scottish Widows. Getting a mortgage is a significant moment in life. So it might be a good time to think about how you can protect yourself and your loved ones from the unexpected.
What is mortgage protection insurance?
You may already know how important it is to protect your home and its contents. But it’s also important to think about how you might pay for your mortgage if the worst happens.
That’s how life insurance and critical illness cover can help. It gives you peace of mind that if you were to die or become too ill to work, the money your policy pays out could help cover your mortgage.
How does mortgage protection insurance work?
Life insurance pays out a cash lump sum if you die. Critical illness cover pays out a cash lump sum if you are diagnosed with an illness covered by your policy before it ends. It’s designed to help you and your loved ones cope financially if something happens to you.
When you apply for your policy, you can choose to be covered by life insurance, critical illness cover, or both. You'll then select the size of the cash lump sum and how long you want to have this cover.
You’ll pay the same amount each month by Direct Debit until your policy ends. Your policy doesn’t have a cash-in-value. This means that if it ends without a claim, then you won’t get the money back.
Make sure you can pay each month on time, or your cover will stop and you’ll get nothing back.
Do I need this cover to get a Halifax mortgage?
No, you don’t need this cover to take out a mortgage with us, but it’s something to think about. It’s one less thing for you and your loved ones to worry about if something happens to you.
Here are two types of cover you may want to think about:
Your cover options
We can offer level or decreasing cover for both life insurance and critical illness cover. Here’s what they mean:
Level cover - cover and payments stay the same
How does level cover work?
Level cover means that the cash pay-out stays the same until your policy ends. You'll pay the same amount each month.
What else do I need to know?
- This kind of cover is often used to help with living costs or to pay off a mortgage.
- The cash pay-out stays the same, so you and your loved ones will always know how much support they have.
Decreasing cover - cover reduces but payments stay the same
How does decreasing cover work?
Decreasing cover means that the cash pay-out goes down each month until your policy ends. You'll pay the same amount each month, and it's usually cheaper than other kinds of cover.
What else do I need to know?
- This kind of cover is often used to protect a repayment mortgage.
- As you pay off your mortgage, the remaining balance goes down. So the amount that your cover pays out, when you die, will go down too.
Scottish Widows protection products have no cash-in value at any time. So if the policy ends without a claim, you won't get any money back. If you don't make payments on time, your cover will stop, your policy will end and you'll get nothing back.
Need to speak to someone?
Our Halifax protection experts are here to help find the cover that is right for you.
They'll give you advice on Scottish Widows life and/or critical illness policies.
They won't charge you for their advice and you do not need to take the product as a result of speaking to them.
Call: 0800 131 0551
Lines are open Monday to Thursday 9am - 7pm, Friday 9am - 6pm.
Or request a call-back at a time that suits you.
Lloyds Bank Insurance Services Limited provides this service, which is also part of Lloyds Banking Group.
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You could lose your home if you don’t keep up your mortgage repayments
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Some lenders might ask you to get life insurance when you apply for a mortgage. In any case, you should think about what's best for you and your loved ones. If you die, life insurance could help pay off your mortgage and allow your loved ones to keep your home.
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Our Halifax protection experts are here to help find the cover that is right for you.
They'll give you advice on Scottish Widows life and/or critical illness policies.
They won't charge you for their advice and you do not need to take the product as a result of speaking to them.
Call:
Lines are open Monday to Thursday 9am - 7pm, Friday 9am - 6pm.
Lloyds Bank Insurance Services Limited provides this service, which is also part of Lloyds Banking Group.
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This kind of insurance covers two people, but it only pays out once. So if one person dies before the policy ends, the money paid out will go to the other person. Then the cover will end.
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The policy will only pay out when a claim is made. So for life insurance, it only pays out if you die before your policy ends. For critical illness cover, it only pays out if you are diagnosed with an illness covered by your policy.
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No. Your policy only pays out if a claim needs to be made. If your policy ends without a claim, then your cover will end and you won’t get money back.
Make sure you pay each month on time, or your cover will stop and you’ll get nothing back.