UK loan protection can be found cheaply but you have to go with a specialist in payment protection insurance (PPI) if you want the cheapest premiums along with the advice needed to ensure that a policy is suitable for your needs. Payment protection or ASU insurance as the product is also sold under is taken out if you want to ensure that you would have the money each month to continue meeting your loan repayments and not get into debt should you become unable to work due to redundancy, long term sickness or accident.
However UK loan protection hasnt been without its faults which stem from an investigation in 2005 when the Office of Fair Trading received a super complaint from the Citizens Advice. The Financial Services Authority fined several high street names for wide spread mis-selling of the product due to sloppy sales practices and a lack of information given to many consumers at the point of sale.
Currently the whole protection insurance sector is in the hands of the Competition Commission who are conducting a review which is set to reach conclusion in February 2009. The mis-selling also ranged from not making the consumer aware of the exclusions which are in...