If you have bought your mortgage protection from a high street lender or bank, then the chances are that you are paying far too much for your mortgage protection. The good news is that you may be able to cancel your policy, and go to a standalone provider for your insurance...

There are around 20 million loan insurance and mortgage insurance policies in the UK and it is thought that around half of these could have been mis-sold. The mis-selling scandal came to the public’s attention in 2005 when it both the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Services Authority started investigations in to the sector...

Payment protection insurance is offered by all of the major high street banks and lenders these days, largely because they noticed that it was a highly profitable product that few people ever claimed on...

Loan protection has been in the news a lot recently as a result of consumer accusations that the providers of loan protection are simply ripping off consumers to profit rather than assessing what is in their best interests...

UK loan protection insurance has been in existence for many years but has never been as popular as it is today. This could be for many reasons, but only one of them actually matters. A higher percentage of individuals are in debt today than the figure associated with times gone by...

Home, as they say, is where the heart is. There is no better feeling than moving into your first home, decorating it how you want and having the freedom to do as you please. However, that all has to be done on a budget, and one that does not extend to having UK mortgage insurance as well! The expense is usually just enough to tip a new household’s financial balance over the edge, if the household in question is of course on a budget to begin with! Just imagine how you would feel if that house that you put your heart and soul into was suddenly pulled out from underneath you because you could not afford to keep up with the mortgage repayments...

Very few people have unemployment insurance in terms of the percentage of working age individuals living in the UK at the moment. Far more have house insurance, car insurance and pet insurance, and yet not one of those entities can help you to make it through enforced time off work...

With the bad publicity which has recently surrounded payment protection insurance products, many homeowners are wary of taking out mortgage protection which is leaving them wide open to losing the roof over their head if they were to suddenly find they lost their income...

Despite the crackdown by the Financial Services Authority since it began investigating in 2005 after a super complaint by the Citizens Advice to the Office of Fair Trading, banks are continuing to "rip-off" consumers by raking in huge profits on payment protection insurance (PPI)...

The Competition Commission has been conducting an in-depth review of the payment protection insurance sector after a referral from the Office of Fair Trading, and following on from the Financial Services Authority who began investigation in 2005...

Unemployment insurance can be a great asset to have in a world where nothing is certain. While you might right now be financially comfortable now, if you have taken on a loan or credit cards and were to suddenly find yourself out of work due to sickness, unemployment or an accident for any length of time then you could be left struggling to meet the monthly repayments...

There is always the right way and easy way to do things in life. Then there is the wrong way and the hard way and when it comes to purchasing your mortgage insurance, this is no exception. Sadly, the majority of people who buy mortgage protection do things the wrong way; these people purchase their mortgage insurance alongside their loan from the high street lender or their bank...

While not many of us like to think of the worst case scenario, it does pay to give it some consideration. After all, as the old saying goes, nothing is certain in life except death and taxes. So unless you can honestly say that you know your job is 100% safe, then you should think about taking out redundancy cover...

The consumer’s faith in loan protection has taken a beating recently, however without a doubt having the cover should be given some serious consideration and cheap loan protection insurance can be found if you know where to take it from...

When it comes to getting cheap loan insurance then it takes some searching to secure the cheapest premiums. This can take a lot of time and effort on your part and quotes can be hard to understand when comparing, a far better way to ensure that you get the cheapest premiums is to go with a standalone provider who will be able to find you cheap loan protection in a fraction of the time it takes you...