Redundancy and Payment Protection Advice Needed

[NobleGuy]

I've got a lady friend at work who's other half is currently under the cloud of possible redundancy. He finds out next Friday, 27th March. The problem is they have a payment protection policy that matures on 19th April (I think there's a 12 week maturity period) and they had no idea redundancies were on the cards when they took the policy out.

She's worried that because the redundancy is going to fall before the policy matures she'll get nothing at all from the insurance. Or is it that they will be able to claim successfully but the insurance will only kick in from April 19th?

Any advice appreciated.

[NobleGuy]

ipitythefool said:

NobleGuy said:

I've got a lady friend at work who's other half is currently under the cloud of possible redundancy. He finds out next Friday, 27th March. The problem is they have a payment protection policy that matures on 19th April (I think there's a 12 week maturity period) and they had no idea redundancies were on the cards when they took the policy out.

She's worried that because the redundancy is going to fall before the policy matures she'll get nothing at all from the insurance. Or is it that they will be able to claim successfully but the insurance will only kick in from April 19th?

Any advice appreciated.

Good question.

If he's given 4 weeks notice from 27th March then surely he will be past April 19th and therefore ok?

No, sorry, should've added this bit. The redundancy will apparently be effective immediately (i.e. they'll be asked to leave the building). Not sure if this is how it will be recorded on paper though. Officially I suppose it might be considered to have occured in 4 weeks time, although I'm also not sure about the length of his contracted notice period.

Edited to add: The notice period is 4 weeks, but she's worried that the notice given to them for the redundancies originally was 4 weeks ago and therefore notice might have been assumed to have been given.

Edited by NobleGuy on Thursday 19th March 09:37

[NobleGuy]

swerni said:

If you knew that it is likely you would be made redundant when the policy was take out that will also void it.

Any claims made just in the eligibility period IMHO would be heavily scrutinised

I would tend to agree with those sentiments. I suppose that's why they have the maturity period. No point paying out to people that knew it was coming.

I've mentioned to her that even if the dates fit the insurance company will be doing all they can to worm out of it - probably being hit left right and centre at the moment.

[NobleGuy]

scotal said:

ETA was this cover taken out with a new mortgage? A remortgage or simply because they thought it was worth having?

I don't think they've remortgaged recently as their fixed rate deal is coming to an end later this year. I think they saw and heard what was happening around them economy-wise and tried to take action to cover themseleves a bit.

[NobleGuy]

ipitythefool said:

scotal said:

swerni said:

Any claims made just in the eligibility period IMHO would be heavily scrutinised

Any claim would be scrutinised..... the guy will get a letter informing him of redundancy, it will be dated 27th March. Prior to the exclusion period expiring. It will be excluded.

Naughty I know but could he ask his employer to keep him employed for a further month for no pay?

Can't belive I've suggested that. But I'm sure the insurance companies will use all means to avouid paying out so maybe it's fair game.

LOL! We discussed that this morning but felt it might not help their case .

I think generally it's looking failry negative and to be honest I was expecting that. Many thanks for all your input.