Payment protection insurance ( PPI ), also known as credit insurance , credit protection insurance , or loan reimbursement insurance, is an insurance product that enables consumers to ensure credit repayment if the borrower dies, becomes sick or disabled, loses his job, or faces other circumstances that may prevent them from earning money to repay the debt. This is not to be confused with income protection insurance, which is not specific to debt but includes any income. PPIs are widely sold by banks and other credit providers in addition to loan or overdraft products.
Credit insurance can be purchased to ensure all types of consumer loans including car loans, loans from finance companies, and home mortgage loans. Credit card agreements may include a cover form of a PPI as a standard. Policies are also available to cover certain risk categories, e.g. credit life insurance , disability insurance , and credit accident insurance .
PPI typically includes payments for a limited period (usually 12 months). For a loan or mortgage, this may be a monthly payment, since credit cards are usually the minimum monthly payment. After this point, the borrower must find other ways to repay the debt, although some policies pay full debt if you can not get back to work or be diagnosed with critical illness. The time period covered by the insurance is usually long enough for most people to start working again and generate enough to repay their debt. PPIs are different from other types of insurance such as home insurance, in that it can be very difficult to determine if it is right for someone or not. A careful assessment of what will happen if a person becomes unemployed should be considered, as payment in lieu of notice (for example) may make the claim ineligible even if the insured person is completely unemployed. In this case, the approach taken by the PPI insurance is consistent with that taken by the Benefit Agency with respect to unemployment benefits.
Most PPI policies are not sought by consumers. In some cases, consumers claim to be unaware that they even have insurance. In sales related to loans, products are often promoted by commission-based sales departments. The fear of losing the loan is exploited, because the product is effectively referred to as an underwriting element. Any attention to conformity may be minimal, if any at all. In all types of insurance, some claims are accepted and some are rejected. In particular, in the case of a PPI, the number of claims is rejected high compared to other types of insurance. In rare cases where customers are not prompted or pushed towards policy, but finding out, it may have little help if and when the policies do not benefit them.
Because PPIs are designed to cover credit and credit card payments, most credit and credit card companies sell products at the same time when they sell credit products. As of May 2008, 20 million PPI policies existed in the UK with a further increase of 7 million policies a year purchased thereafter. Surveys show that 40% of policyholders claim to be unaware that they have a policy.
"The PPI was wrongly sold and complaints about it were mismanaged on an industrial scale for more than a decade." with sales errors made by not only banks or providers, but also by third party brokers. The sale of such a policy is usually driven by a large commission, since insurance will usually make the bank/provider more money than the original loan interest, so many of the major personal loan providers make little or no gain on the loan itself; all or almost all profits come from the PPI commissions and profit sharing. Some companies develop sales scripts that guide sellers to say that the loan is "protected" without specifying the nature or cost of insurance. When challenged by the customer, they sometimes mistakenly state that this insurance increases the borrower's chances of getting a loan or that it is mandatory. A consumer in financial difficulties is unlikely to question further the policy and the risk of the loan being denied.
Several high-profile companies have now been fined by the Financial Conduct Authority due to widespread sales of Payment Protection Insurance. Alliance and Leicester were fined £ 7m for being involved in the wrong sales controversy, others including Capital One, HFC and Egg were fined up to £ 1.1m. Incorrect claims on PPIs are being sold slowly, and may be close to levels seen during the 2006-07 period, when thousands of bank customers make claims regarding unfair bank charges. In their 2009/2010 annual report, the Financial Ombudsman Service stated that 30% of new cases refer to payment protection insurance. Customers who purchase a PPI policy may file a claim for wrong PPIs sold by complaining to the bank, lender, or broker selling the policy.
A little before that, on April 6, 2011, the Competition Commission released their investigative orders designed to prevent mis-selling in the future. Key rules on the order, designed to enable customers to shop and make informed decisions, including: providing adequate information when selling payment protection and offering personal offers; the obligation to provide an annual review; the prohibition of selling payment protection at the same time as the credit agreement. Most of the rules come into effect in October 2011, with some of them in April 2012.
The Central Bank of Ireland in April 2014 is described as "arbitrarily excluding the majority of consumers" from getting compensation for incorrectly incorrectly incorrect Payment Protection Insurance, by setting a 2007 deadline when it introduces its Consumer Protection Code. British banks provide more than £ 22 billion for PPI abandonment fees - which, if scaled pro rata, are the multiple incremental compensations required by Irish banks to repay. Offensive banks are also not fined in stark contrast to the regime imposed on British banks. The lawyers were surprised by the "reckless" advice the Irish Central Bank made to consumers who missed the PPI policy, which "will play in the hands of financial institutions."
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Calculation
The price paid for payment protection insurance may vary quite significantly depending on the lender. A survey of forty-eight key lenders by Mana? Ltd. found the price of PPI is 16-25% of the amount of debt.
PPI premiums may be charged on a monthly basis or a full PPI premium may be added to the advance loan to cover the cost of the policy. With this latest payment approach known as the "Single Premium Policy", the money borrowed from the provider to pay for the insurance policy incurs additional interest, usually on the same APR as charged for the original loan amount, further increasing the total cost of the policy to the customer.
Credit insurance coverage insurance on credit cards is calculated differently from lump sum loans, because initially there is no outstanding amount and it is not known whether customers will ever use their card facility. However, if the credit facility is used and the rest is not paid in full each month, the customer will be charged between 0.78% and 1% or Ã, Â £ 0.78 to Ã, 1.00 of each Ã, Â £ 100 which is the balance balance their current card every month, as a premium for insurance. When credit card interest is added to premium, it can be very expensive. For example, the average UK credit card PPI fee which weighed 19.32% on average Ã, £ 5,000 per month, adding an additional Ã, £ 3,219.88 in premium and interest.
With a lump sum loan, PPI premiums are paid upfront at a cost of 13% to 56% of the loan amount as reported by the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) which launches Super Complaint into what is called the Protection Racket.
When interest is charged at a premium, the cost of a single premium policy increases the cost geometrically. The loan is secured above Ã,  £ 25,000 over a 25 year term with an additional 4.5% customer fee Ã, £ 20,221.74 interest for PPI. Moneymadeclear calculates payments for the loan to be Ã, £ 138.96 per month while a stand-alone payment protection policy to say a 30-year loan of the same amount that covers the same timeframe will cost the total customer, ÃÆ' ¢ à ¢ 1992 Ãà ¢ â, "1992, almost one-third of the premium single policy fee.
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PPI Claim
Payment Protection Insurance can be a very useful insurance; however, many PPI policies are misplaced along with loans, credit cards, and mortgages. There are many instances of misrepresentation of PPIs, and as a result may leave borrowers with PPIs that are of no use to them if they come to file claims. Reclamation of PPI payments and interest charges under the law on these payments are made possible in this case either by the affected borrower or by using a lawyer or claims management company.
If the borrower at the time of the PPI claim owes money to the lender, the lender will usually have a contractual right to offset the PPI refund of the debt. If any PPI value is left, then the rest will be paid to PPI and/or client attorneys.
The first PPI case was in 1992-93 (Bristol Crown Court 93/10771). It is estimated that total insurance premium payments are almost as high as the total claimable benefits. The 10-year non-disclosure clause is applied as part of the settlement. After 10 years, a copy of the verdict is sent to the Fair Trade Office and the Citizen Advice Bureau. Soon after, a super complaint arose.
A judicial review that follows the headline when it finally decides to support the borrower, enables a large number of consumers to recover PPI payments. To date, Ã, Â £ 28.5 billion has been settled to consumers (January 2018).
In 2014, a PPI claim from Susan Plevin against Paragon Personal Finance revealed that more than 71% of PPI sales are commissions. This is considered a form of sales wrong. The Plevin case has caused the bank and the Financial Ombudsman to review more PPI claims.
The company's current PPI claims are one of the most common sources of internet click feed, often using misleading information to withdraw from ordinary search.
Statistics
British banks have set billions of pounds worth to compensate for the wrong customers of PPIs; Lloyds Banking Group has set aside £ 3.6bn, HSBC has a provision of Ã, Â £ 745m, and RBS has predicted they will compensate Ã, Â £ 950m. Payment Protection Insurance has been the most complaining about financial products ever.
See also
- Mortgage insurance
- Mortgage lenders
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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