Mortgage Life Insurance Explained

Take Mortgage Life Insurance, for example. Despite the potentially off-putting title, it is simply an insurance intended to ensure that your mortgage is fully paid off in the event that you died before you had had the opportunity to pay it off.

Those more traditional methods of mortgage life insurance tended to be decreasing term life assurance arrangements, in which the potential insurance payout sum decreased over the term of the insurance, in line with the decreasing mortgage balance owing. By the end of the mortgage term, therefore, the insurance payout has reduced to zero.

Given recent changes in the mortgage market and the increasing competitiveness of straight forward term life assurance, however, it could make better sense to opt for a fixed term life insurance equal to the mortgage amount borrowed.

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