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MSE News: Car insurance costs down but younger women pay more
"Average car insurance prices fell towards the end of last year but young women saw their premiums rise, says the AA" Read the full story: Car insurance costs down but younger women pay more
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Post Office car insurance rip-off
My mother bought car insurance for her Nissan Micra worth £800 from the post office using moneysupermarket.com. The quote was around £300 so she got it and chose to pay monthly. Shortly after this, my mother looks in her bank account and they took the full amount straight from her account. We spoke to them but then they…
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Cancelling Car insurance and selling car to new owner
Hello all! I'm currently with Admiral for my car insurance on my 206. I've been with them since October paying Direct Debits. I'm selling my car tomorrow, so have 2 questions; 1) If i was to cancel my direct debit with them, what kind of costs am I likely to incur? Would they try and take payment for the rest of the term?…
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Bit of advice - Life assurance mortgage protection
I have a Friends Provident Homebuyer Protection Plan with Critical illness and disability Its costing me 31 a month which is going up to £33. My question is - Am i paying too much? Do i have the wrong type of policy. I was under the impression that i had to have mortgage protection so that my mortgage would be paid off if…
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Mother potentially being taken to court after car bump
Some wally reversed into my mum who was stationary & in the car. Turns out her insurance company hasn't received the money from this blokes insurance company & the whole thing must be 6 months or more old now. The claims company have sent out a form for her to fill out & send back. She did this. Some time after this they…
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No claims worry
Hi all, new member on here. From the uk Basically I've had a whole massive worry when buying a new car, the first car I've bought myself and so have had to insure myself. I had an online quote when viewing the car of around 1100 pounds. I liked the car and put down a deposit. So my brother added me to his multicar policy…
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Life & CI for someone with asthma?
We're looking to review our plans and hopefully find a cheaper deal without losing benefit. My wife suffers from asthma and at the time BUPA were one of a very few to accept this condition and provide cover. We also pay a higher premium in view of this. Can anyone please suggest any alternatve cover providers we might…
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Car wrote off but still on finance not my fault...
Right I am new to this and it is a long story but I shall explain it all so the advice I gain will be more relevant so here goes. In February I bought a car from Arnold Clark on finance around the value of £8288. Great no problems got the VRI and everything but by November I had that many problems with it, It had become so…
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Young, female driver - looking for 2nd year car insurance! Please help :)
Hi there, Firstly, thanks for clicking on my post, it is much appreciated. As a summary, I passed my test last March, got my first car beginning of April and insurance began on 10th April 2012, aged 22. I got a special deal with Admiral which allowed me to buy 10 months insurance instead of 12 but still gain 1 year's no…
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Vehicle Recovery. RescueMyCar no longer mentioned. Why?
2 years ago I was looking for Vehicle Breakdown Cover here and RescueMyCar was the recommended choice for Pay'n'Claim cover. It was great for me because I have a small van and it qualified. The new recommendation Autoaid does not cover vans. I have come to check again and it is no longer mentioned. Does anybody know the…
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Car Insurance RIP OFF...
Having been a driver for more than 20 years & never had an insurance claim..I was driving a friends car & was pulled over etc & the insurance that we thought was valid turned out to be invalid so the car was unfortunatley taken away & crushed etc at the time..I do understand the law is the law & accept that.But having…
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is askmid down?
I wanted to check if a car was insured but askmid seems to be down. Is it or is it my computer?
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Insurance on a shared freehold property
Hi there, I'm about to purchase a share of the freehold of my property (it's going through by the end of the week) and am looking into buildings insurance - I am totally confused! Up until now, the freeholder paid for the buildings insurance and split the bill between me and the people who own the downstairs (they rent…
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Car, total loss and offer changed after a few days to a lesser ammount. help?
edit: sorted! Someone hit my parked car a couple of weeks ago, claim has been going through my insurance and was all going nicely. shorter version: Engineers made me an offer on my car, I took a few days to decide what to do, now the offer has dropped by over £300 quid. Who do I complain to about this? They made the…
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Aviva Life Prime - Life Insurance Cut in Benefit Amount - Is it Allowed?
Hi Everyone My parents are both in their 60's, in Feb 1993 they took out a life insurance from aviva (it was norwhich union at the time). The monthly premium was set to £20 a month with a benefit amount of £31,927 Fast forward to Jan 2013 aviva sent a letter saying that to maintain the benefit amount the premium must…
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Redundancy insurance, viable / good idea?
I am 28 years old with a salary of £83,000 per year at a small UK company that is a division of a larger international company. My salary is the result of specialist skills that are unique to this company, I would not be able to earn this salary at any other company and if I needed to find new employment it would require…
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Home Insurance - Finance Agreement
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with a home insurance finance agreement. I opted for the monthly payments when taking out home insurance with the finance provided by premium first. Just before it was due for renewal I rang to cancel the policy as I was moving out of the property. On recently checking my bank statements,…
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Currys Whatever Happens
Hi, I recently noticed a direct debit on my bank statement for £9.50 per month so I called Currys to find out what it was and they told me it was for Whatever Happens insurance cover for a Macbook which I bought in August 2011. I do remember being asked when I was buying the Macbook if I wanted this cover and I said no…
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Named driver accident query
Hi A family member who is a named driver on mine and another relatives vehicle has been involved in an accident today in their own car. Do we now both need to inform the insurers of our vehicles that this driver has been involved in an incident in their own vehicle or does this wait until renewal as it doesn't effect these…
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CityMain delaying claim
I had an iphone stolen whilst at a wake in Scotland some 300 miles from where I live. It was in my bag which was with me at all times but the venue was extremely busy so I can only assume it was taken from my bag. I noticed it missing the following day - called the venue nothing handed in/blocked it with Orange/reported it…
