Critical Illness Insurance Do you really need it? Or is it a waste of time?
GREAT NEWS! There’s now a one in five chance of you winning the lottery before you retire.
Getting excited? Think it’s just a matter of time before you win? Think again, it’s not going to happen – but it got you thinking!
Now think of the same odds but this time about bad news. There is a 1 in 5 chance for men and a 1 in 6 chance for women that a long-term critical illness will prevent them from working. Sorry – this time it’s true.
Insurance cannot change those odds but it can alleviate the potential financial wreckage caused by being unable to work through long-term illness and still having a family and home to support.
Convention declares that every good family man should have life insurance. It’s easily understood, it’s accepted and your next door neighbour has it too. But what about it’s close cousin critical illness insurance? You’ll have to walk several streets to find someone who has it. Given the odds, why? After all it pays out a tax-free lump sum immediately an insured critical...