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Anyone has gone through choosing a life insurance ? We will be Australians soon enough and with no way going back to home country I want to make sure the family is covered in the case of errrr... death.

Gone through Life / Life with TPD. What options & gotchas should I be looking for ? Does one have to mention motorcycle riding activities in the policy seeing that we are 70% more likely to die :lol:

ps. reading few quotes apparently it's cheaper to insure oneself than a car :?
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Luckily it's included in my work health insurance package, so I didn't have to do all the research into it, but if you have a family I think you'd be silly not to have some sort of cover.

Good luck with it all and congrats on your impending citizenship :D
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Colette wrote:Luckily it's included in my work health insurance package, so I didn't have to do all the research into it, but if you have a family I think you'd be silly not to have some sort of cover.

Good luck with it all and congrats on your impending citizenship :D
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Post by Jonno »

yup, get income protection as well as pernamnt disabilty policy. Go for a higher death payout, once you add up what teh living expensses will be for your family it may come as a surprise.
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Thanks... we are just waiting for the ceremony. Hopefully the flag won't be banned then :lol:

I am covered by work, actually but the amount would only enough to pay for the house.

So I wanted to add my personal one on top of it, so the house can be paid and the kids can go to uni...

Is that a sound thinking or is there a gotcha there ? What is "income protection" is it for unability to work or as simple as getting laid off ?
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It is the inability to work, like injured outside of work.. Iam currently recieving it as I had a major accident 7 years ago, I would have been stuffed without it. I had the policy for many years as a sub contractor then a business owner, not covered by workcover. You have to tell them all your activities such as sport and hangliding etc
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Post by Lone Wolf »

Income protection can be for "involuntary" unemployment as well (so you can't just quit ;) ). When I worked at a bank I didn't deal directly with Life insurance, that was for the planners, but one thing they always said is that about 80% of people are under insured. So be aware of that.
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Post by Glen »

Can you increase your cover through your work super and have the premiums deducted from your super fund. It's effectively pre tax then so it'll save you a shitload. I know MLC will alow you to do it but I'm not sure of others
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I wish I could get life assurance until I'm at least 90 I reckon
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Post by gray_rm »

Pretty sure if you get TPD or Income Protection you can claim it on tax - ask your accountant.

I have life insurance (well, death insurance) but failed on TPD - something about past conditions etc. (i.e white male, overweight, high blood pressure, drinks) :D
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