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June 12, 2008 ( PowerHomeBiz
) - Worcestershire,United Kingdom --
While taking out personal loans and credit cards, the payment protection
insurance (PPI) that they buy are being overcharged at £1.4bn per year. This
was reported by an independent review that was published last week.
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According to the Competition Commission, those people who were buying
policies did not know that they could do that with a cover. This resulted in
the lenders charging a higher rate of interest. The Commission now is
proposing that the PPI should not be sold along with the loan and also that
all policies that are bought should come with a temporary price cap.
The work of the policy is to cover the policy holder in case he is unable
to work due to redundancy or sickness. However, these policies have been
criticized in the past few years as people do not find themselves eligible
so as to make a claim. Also, another reason for this is that the cost of the
insurance costs more than the interest that is being charged on the personal
loans it is meant to cover.
For those people who live on state benefits or those who work less than
16 hours in a week, the PPI are entirely not suitable for them. Also, these
should not be sold to those people who do not have their employment less
than the last six months with their present employer.
Doug Taylor, personal finance campaigns manager of the consumer group
Which?, says, "Since PPI is not a viable financial product so it should be
put to an end. Up to two million policies have been mis-sold in the last
five years, according to our research."
However there are some experts who believe that in the PPI, it may become
somewhat difficult for some borrowers to repay their loans if they are not
insured. If the lenders are prevented from selling PPI with the loan, it may
happen that borrowers do not buy them when required. With the increasing
number of job losses due to the credit crunch, this is not said to be the
best time for making this change in the sale of PPI, according to Stuart
Glendinning of Moneysupermarket.com.
If people want cover at subsidized rates, shopping on the internet for
personal loans and then PPI seems to be the option now. This way the
consumers can get the best value policies and not limited to getting
insurance from their loan lender.
A comparison table will be published by the Financial Services Authority
by the end of June for all the PPI policies which are available in the
market.
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