PROTECTION IF YOU BECOME ILL
What if you become seriously ill?
Critical illness cover may pay a lump sum for specified conditions. Income protection may replace part of your earnings if illness or injury stops you working.
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Critical illness cover
One lump sum if a covered condition occursThis cover can pay a lump sum if you meet the policy definition for a listed serious illness or condition. The payment could help with mortgage costs or other financial needs.
- Only specified conditions and severity levels are covered.
- A qualifying claim usually triggers a one-off payment.
- Policy definitions and exclusions matter.
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Income protection
Regular payments if you cannot workIncome protection can replace part of your earnings if illness or injury prevents you working, after a waiting period and subject to policy conditions.
- Designed to help with ongoing bills and mortgage payments.
- Payments generally last until recovery or the agreed end point.
- Waiting periods and cover levels vary.
These policies are not interchangeable: critical illness is linked to specified conditions; income protection is linked to inability to work under policy terms.