Ensure life goes on with life insurance

Life Insurance

Financial protection for your family

  • Cover for your loved ones from £5 a month
  • Choose a cover amount to suit your needs
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What is Life Insurance?

Think of life insurance like a safety net. It could pay out a cash sum if you were to pass away while covered by the policy or if you were diagnosed with a terminal illness and your life expectancy is less than 12 months. But while all life insurance policies broadly share the same principles, there are different details you can compare.

 

Benefits of our life insurance

Quick and easy cover

Get a free life insurance quote online in 2 minutes. You could be covered in just 20.

Help provide financial security for your loved ones

In 2024 we paid out £583 million in life claims, helping more than 14,000 people and their families.

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Types of life insurance

Life insurance

Life insurance is where the cover and monthly payment (premium) you choose will stay the same for the length of your policy, unless you make any changes. If you pass away while covered, your family will get a cash sum to help with things like household bills or child care costs, for example.

Decreasing life insurance

Decreasing life insurance means the amount of cover will decrease over time, roughly in line with the way a repayment mortgage decreases. It's usually used to help protect a repayment mortgage. If you pass away while covered, your family would get a cash sum which could be used to help pay the mortgage.

Ready to continue your application?

If you need to take a break in the middle of your application, please take a note of your reference number to allow you to pick up where you left off. (Begins with “AN” followed by 8 numbers – e.g. AN12345678)

With your reference number you'll then be able to log back into My Account and pick back up your application to complete.

Life Insurance cover details

What's covered?

  • You'll be covered if you die or if you're diagnosed with a terminal illness (with a life expectancy of less than 12 months) within the length of the policy.
  • You choose how much cover you need and how long you need it for.
  • Premiums are guaranteed and will not change unless you make changes to the policy.
  • Additional benefits are included at no extra cost, such as Free Life Cover and Accidental Death Benefit. Terms and conditions apply.
  • You have the option to add Critical Illness Cover at an extra cost when you take out your life insurance policy. 

Please read the key documents before you apply:

Things you need to know

  • This is not a savings or investment product and has no cash value unless a valid claim is made.
  • If you stop paying premiums when due, your plan will be cancelled and you won't get anything back.
  • You won't be covered within the first year of the policy if you die as a result of suicide or intentional and serious self-injury, or an event where, in our reasonable opinion, you took your own life.
  • You won't be covered if your terminal illness does not meet our definition. See the Policy Booklet PDF(3.2MB) for more information.
  • If your life insurance is to cover your mortgage, your policy may not completely pay off your outstanding mortgage unless you make sure your amount of cover is adjusted to match any new mortgage arrangements. If you take out Decreasing Life Insurance you should also check that the interest rate on your mortgage does not become higher than the rate applied to the policy. The rate will be shown in your Personal Quote or the Policy Booklet.

Ready to help protect your family?

Why get life insurance with L&G?

We've been protecting families like yours for over 185 years. You can trust us to provide expert cover and supporting benefits.

From only £5 a month

Fixed premiums from £5 a month so you can plan ahead - no surprises! We'll ask you a few questions to give you an exact price, so it's dependant on your individual circumstances.

UK's Number 1

We're the UK's No1 life insurance provider and no-one covers more families in the UK than us* (Based on new individual Life Insurance sales in 2023, Term & Health Watch report 2024, Swiss Re.)

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Free access to our team of Care Experts, this confidential and impartial telephone advisory service can help you or loved ones understand and find adult and later life care. Find out more.

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