Payment Protection Insurance, also known as PPI, is an insurance policy that was intended to cover your monthly finance repayments if you were ever unable to pay them yourself. With this policy, an agreed sum of money is paid out each month to either fully cover or partially cover the payment due on your finances. This policy was designed to cover you, if you:
Payment protection insurance is usually taken out alongside mortgages, personal loans, credit cards or if you are obtaining credit on a high value purchase such as a car or furniture. If you sign up for a store card then the retailer may offer it to you here as well. Typically the policy will cover your monthly finance repayments for 12 or (depending upon who you are with) 24 months. Once the period that is defined in your policy has been reached, you will have to cover the monthly payments yourself. Please be aware that not all of the polices are the same; each individual policy will always have different levels of coverage and different exclusions. That being said, the majority of the insurance policies will not cover you if, at the time of taking the policy out, you were:
Whilst the product itself was not inherently bad, many problems arose concerning the product due to widespread mis-selling. Here at iSmart, we are dedicated to helping our customes reclaim mis-sold PPI and have plenty of experience in handling these claims. We offer a free initial consultation to help ascertain whether you have a case for complaint and also offer other debt management and reclaim services. If you fear you have been mis-sold PPI then it could be worth your while to contact us today.