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What is waiver of premium and how does it work?
Mortgage life insurance is a great way to protect your loved ones or mortgage in the event of your death, but what if you were unable to work due to incapacity caused by illness or injury and could no longer afford the premiums?
Waiver of premium pays your mortgage life insurance premiums if you’re in gainful employment and you’re too ill to undertake your normal occupation for 26 weeks or more due to incapacity caused by illness or injury.
Although you’ll have to pay your premiums at first, after 26 weeks of incapacity when you can’t work, we’ll waive the premiums, giving you one less thing to think about at a potentially stressful time.
Things you need to know
- You must be under age 55 and accepted on standard terms and normal rates, if you choose to take out the waiver of premium option on your life insurance policy.
- If you are not in work before the onset of incapacity, your premiums are waived if you are unable to perform three or more of the following functional assessment tests:
- Walking - the ability to walk a distance of 200 metres on flat ground with or without the aid of a walking stick and without stopping or experiencing discomfort.
- Bending - the ability to get into or out of a standard saloon car, and the ability to bend or kneel to pick up an object from the floor and straighten up again.
- Communicating - the ability to answer a telephone and to take a message.
- Reading - having the required eyesight (corrected if necessary) to be able to read a daily newspaper.
- Writing - the physical ability to write legibly using a pen or pencil without aid.
- Climbing - having the ability to climb up a flight of 12 stairs without stopping or suffering severe discomfort.
- Legal & General will continue to waive premiums until one of the following occurs:
- you die
- you return to work or fitness, so no longer qualify for the waiver
- you reach the end of your policy term
- you no longer fulfil our definition of incapacity as detailed above.
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