Everyone should seriously consider life and critical illness cover. It’s easy to think that you will never die (at least not until a very old age!) or be diagnosed with a critical illness, particularly when feeling healthy and energetic. But this can change with little or no warning.
Death or Critical Illness can have a serious impact not only on your life, but also on the lives of your children and spouse/partner. So it’s important to make sure that you financially protect yourself and your family.
Everyone should seriously consider life and critical illness cover. It’s easy to think that you will never die (at least not until a very old age!) or be diagnosed with a critical illness, particularly when feeling healthy and energetic. But this can change with little or no warning.
Death or Critical Illness can have a serious impact not only on your life, but also on the lives of your children and spouse/partner. So it’s important to make sure that you financially protect yourself and your family.
Obviously it’s entirely up to you how you choose to spend the money, but you could use it to pay off your mortgage or other debts, maybe a holiday to help you recuperate or for home modifications, such as building ramps or widening doorways for wheelchair access. Knowing you don’t have to worry about your financial commitments, if you’re unable to work, can give you peace of mind.
If you were critically ill you may think your monthly outgoings would come down. However you could find yourself with additional costs for treatment or needing to make alterations to your home. Savings that could have taken you years to accumulate could disappear quickly. Critical Illness cover could give you money for the short term and help protect your hard earned savings for your future.
It may be worth considering these questions:
Once you’ve considered these points, the ‘need’ may become more apparent. If so, get in touch with us and we can arrange for a specialist to contact you and discuss how critical illness cover could protect your finances if such a scenario were to occur.
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