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Protection - Latest Articles
Is your home at risk of flooding?
June’s floods in many parts of the country have brought into sharp contrast the availability of home insurance in the event of flood. Thousands of families are likely to experience difficulty in getting their claims settled, because insurance companies are inundated (no pun intended) with reports of damage; others may find cover withdrawn in future.
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The cost of child care
How would you cope as a lone parent?
When you consider that average earnings in the UK were £447 a week last year, child care can take a large proportion of income; especially when tax is taken into account. Even if there are two incomes, this is still a significant expense.
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New Long-term care information
Who will foot the bill?
Long-term care is one of the less palatable realities of life. It can lead to high costs payable to a care home and, for many people, it has to be funded by themselves.
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Inheritance tax
Re-distributing wealth
Inheritance tax (IHT) was first introduced as capital transfer tax in 1975 by the then Labour government. It was intended both to raise money and to re-distribute wealth from the rich to the poor – it was even promoted as a Robin Hood tax.
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Long term care
Who pays what and how much do they pay
The prospect of spending our final days in a home is not an appealing thought. But with one in three of us likely to end our lives this way.
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Meeting the cost of long-term care
Joint tenancy
If your partner needs to move into a care home, consider changing the ownership of your property from joint tenancy to tenants in common.
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Protection
Don’t be caught short
Obtaining life insurance, critical illness cover or income protection is, for many, the least enjoyable aspect of financial planning. Perhaps it is because protection issues are so daunting that Britain remains such an underinsured nation. It is estimated that more than 18 million British adults have no life insurance.
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Remortgaging
Don’t run the risk of leaving your family in dire financial straits
If you’ve remortgaged recently and not increased your life cover by the amount of any additional mortgage advance, you could run the risk of leaving your family in dire financial
straits if you died prematurely.
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