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The money matter:<br />
savings and<br />
reclaims<br />
Debt solutions<br />
made simple<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
01<br />
Reclaim PPI For Free<br />
Page 5 -9<br />
02<br />
Packaged Bank Account<br />
Page 10 -11<br />
03<br />
Flight Delay Compensation<br />
Page 12 -15<br />
04<br />
Holiday Sickness Claim<br />
Page <strong>16</strong> -20<br />
05<br />
Saving On Utility Bills<br />
Page 21 -<strong>24</strong><br />
06<br />
Pop Telecom<br />
Page 25 -27<br />
07<br />
Road Accident Claims<br />
Page 28 -29<br />
08<br />
Pension Reviews<br />
Page 30<br />
09<br />
Life Insurance<br />
Page 31 -32<br />
10<br />
Debt Management Plan<br />
Page 33 -36
11<br />
Individual Voluntary<br />
Arrangements<br />
Page 37 -40<br />
12<br />
Protected Trust Deed<br />
Page 41 -43<br />
13<br />
Marriage Tax Allowance<br />
Page 44 -45<br />
14<br />
Bad Credit Loans<br />
Page 46 -47<br />
15<br />
Pre-paid Funeral Plans<br />
Page 48 -50<br />
<strong>16</strong><br />
Latest Free Stufs<br />
Page 51 -52
Editorial<br />
Column<br />
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Have You<br />
Been mis-sold<br />
PPI? Claim<br />
£1,000s for<br />
mis-selling<br />
with time-bar<br />
looming.<br />
An urgent call for everyone<br />
who's had a loan, credit or<br />
store card, catalogue account,<br />
overdrat or car finance. The<br />
regulator in August reiterated<br />
plans to introduce a time-bar<br />
on claims! If you were logged<br />
worthless PPI – and if you were<br />
rejected before and didn't go<br />
to the Ombudsman,<br />
Check now.<br />
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What IsPPI?<br />
PPI stands for 'Payment Protection Insurance'. It's designed to cover<br />
your loan or credit card repayments in case you face some financial<br />
crisis in terms of an accident, sickness or unemployment.<br />
PPIs has been widely mis-sold, and you could even have it without<br />
your knowledge. If you were mis-sold PPI, you may be able to<br />
reclaim £1,000s.<br />
What I Mis Sold PPI?<br />
Were you told it was compulsory?<br />
Consumers are oten told by<br />
sales agents that they must buy a policy<br />
from the same provider as the loan in order to be<br />
accepted for the product. This is mis-selling. You can<br />
tell if you were mis sold if the below conditions<br />
applies to you.<br />
1. Didn't make it clear the policy was optional or tell<br />
you about any cooling of period.<br />
2. Implied or stated it would be more expensive if you<br />
didn't take the insurance.<br />
3. Implied or insisted you take out their policy to<br />
qualify for the product or help with your application.<br />
4. Was very pushy when selling the product, so you<br />
felt you could not say no.<br />
5. Would not let you continue with the application if<br />
you did not sign the insurance agreement as well.<br />
If one of the above applies, then go to the how to<br />
reclaim section.<br />
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mis-sold<br />
PPI?<br />
CLAIM<br />
How do i Make a<br />
claim?<br />
There are many<br />
Companies in the<br />
UK ready to help<br />
you out at a No<br />
Win, No Fee basis.<br />
All you need to do is<br />
browse through the<br />
internet and find<br />
out for yourself a<br />
proper service.<br />
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•A £5,000 loan for 5 years at 5%<br />
should be £95 a month.<br />
•A £10,000 loan for 10 years at<br />
10% should be £130 a month.<br />
•A £20,000 loan for 3 years at<br />
20% should be £740 a month.<br />
Very Big money!<br />
You could get<br />
thousands of pounds<br />
depending upon the<br />
type of reclaim you<br />
are looking for. It's<br />
possible to estimate<br />
how much the<br />
insurance has cost to<br />
see what you can<br />
reclaim. It then<br />
depends whether you're entitled<br />
to the full amount, or just part of<br />
it.<br />
One way of doing this is to work<br />
out what your monthly loan<br />
payment should have been. If you<br />
were paying more, it's likely PPI<br />
was included. You can compare<br />
the table to get a vague idea of<br />
how much you can get.<br />
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Loans :<br />
Estimating the reclaim size<br />
MONTHLY<br />
REPAYMENT<br />
LOAN<br />
LENGTH<br />
TOTAL COST<br />
(LENGTH X<br />
REPAYMENT)<br />
ESTIMATED<br />
INSURANCE<br />
COST (15% OF TOTAL)<br />
£100<br />
3 years (36<br />
months)<br />
£3,600<br />
£540<br />
£125<br />
5 years (60<br />
months)<br />
£7,500<br />
£1,125<br />
£150<br />
5 years (60<br />
months)<br />
£9,000<br />
£1,350<br />
£200<br />
7 years (84<br />
months)<br />
£<strong>16</strong>,800<br />
£2,520<br />
£150<br />
20 years (<strong>24</strong>0<br />
months)<br />
£36,000<br />
£5,400<br />
Once you've worked out the amount, you<br />
can add the actual cost of any interest (so<br />
you're in the same position you would've<br />
been without the insurance), plus the 8%<br />
interest a court would give to compensate<br />
(this was 15% for premiums paid before 1<br />
Apr 1993)<br />
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GET YOUR RECLAIM<br />
Packaged Bank Account Fees<br />
Do you pay a monthly fee or paid a<br />
monthly fee for your bank account? Have<br />
a Packaged Account that you were<br />
logged into? You may be able to claim<br />
£100s or £1,000s!!<br />
Are packaged<br />
accounts right<br />
for me?<br />
Packaged accounts can be brilliant,<br />
but they can also be useless. These<br />
accounts are where you pay a<br />
monthly fee for your account in<br />
return for benefits, most oten<br />
bundled insurance<br />
policies. If you've<br />
chosen one based<br />
on a rational<br />
decision,<br />
it's<br />
probably a<br />
good<br />
account as<br />
they can be the<br />
cheapest way to get<br />
many types of<br />
insurance.<br />
But if you were logged one by a<br />
pushy sales agent, you could be<br />
owed serious cash, as banks have<br />
been found to have systemically mis-sold<br />
them.<br />
HOW DO I MAKE A CLAIM?<br />
if you have been mis sold a Packaged Bank Account and<br />
want a reclaim for it, call the Financial Ombudsman Service<br />
or seek help through a financial advisor to know whats best<br />
for you.<br />
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The mis-selling checklist<br />
Have I<br />
been<br />
mis-sold?<br />
Examples of how<br />
you might have<br />
been mis-sold<br />
include:<br />
How much<br />
can I get?<br />
If you're mis-sold<br />
you should get the<br />
fees you paid back,<br />
plus interest. So<br />
quite simply,<br />
if you paid<br />
£15/month<br />
for two years you<br />
should get £360 back<br />
(£15 x <strong>24</strong> months)<br />
plus interest.<br />
1. You were signed up without being told.<br />
2. You weren't told you could have a free<br />
bank account instead.<br />
3. You were told having one would<br />
improve your credit score.<br />
4. You were told you would get<br />
‘unbeatable’ deals on other financial<br />
products or services by taking out this<br />
account but found you could get them<br />
cheaper as a new customer.<br />
5. You were told you had to get a<br />
packaged account in order to access<br />
other products such as a loan or<br />
mortgage.<br />
6. You were signed up to an account and<br />
your bank knew you wouldn't be eligible<br />
to claim on one or more of the benefits -<br />
eg. you were too old to be able to use the<br />
travel insurance.<br />
7. Your bank or building society failed to<br />
tell you that you were no longer eligible<br />
for one or more of the benefits - eg. you<br />
had passed the maximum age limit to<br />
claim on the travel insurance.<br />
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Flight Delay<br />
Compensation<br />
Up to £510/person,<br />
back to 2010<br />
If you're delayed by more than three hours or your<br />
light's cancelled, under EU rule 261/2004 you are oten<br />
entitled to between £110 and £510 in compensation –<br />
and it's possible to claim this for free<br />
Big money in light delays!!!<br />
The doors for mass<br />
compensation for long light<br />
delays were lung open in<br />
October 2012 following a<br />
landmark ruling by the European<br />
Court of Justice. It clarified that<br />
passengers were entitled to<br />
compensation for long delays (as<br />
long as they met the set criteria)<br />
following a challenge by some<br />
airlines. Since then, passengers<br />
who've been delayed have been<br />
fighting to get that compensation<br />
has helped lead the charge.<br />
Over 480,000 people have<br />
downloaded our free light<br />
delay reclaiming letters – and<br />
we launched a free online<br />
reclaim tool to make the<br />
process even easier in August<br />
2015.<br />
Not everyone has won<br />
compensation. Some airlines<br />
have been trying to block<br />
people from claiming for<br />
lights that were over two years<br />
old, and for unforeseeable<br />
technical faults, although<br />
courts have ruled against this<br />
at the end of 2014 and in<br />
September 2015. 12
Flight Delay Compensation Rules<br />
If you booked a light that departed from Europe or was with a<br />
European airline, you might have rights under EU law if your<br />
light is delayed or cancelled. For the EU law to apply, one or both<br />
of the following must apply:<br />
• Your light is departing from the UK, European Union (EU),<br />
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.<br />
• You're lying with a UK or EU airline to somewhere in the UK, EU,<br />
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.<br />
BREXIT<br />
IMPACT<br />
The light delay regulations above<br />
come from the EU and so it's likely<br />
they'll stop when the UK leaves the<br />
union. Nothing is confirmed yet<br />
though and we won't be exiting for at<br />
least two years, probably more, so in<br />
the meantime, everything here still<br />
stands.<br />
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30% of people have<br />
experienced delays or<br />
cancellations with<br />
their light<br />
Compensation for delays is only due<br />
on lights arriving over 3 hrs or more<br />
late. How long the delay determines<br />
how much you could be entitled to<br />
Crucially, this is a straight rule. It's<br />
about when you arrive, not when you<br />
leave.<br />
So if you're on a light that takes of<br />
four hours late but lands 2 hrs 55 mins<br />
late, you're not over the 3-hr delay<br />
needed to be eligible for<br />
compensation.<br />
Your arrival time is actually deemed<br />
to be when the plane opens at least<br />
one of its doors, not when it touches<br />
down. This follows a ruling by the<br />
European Court of Justice in<br />
September 2014, ater Germanwings<br />
unsuccessfully tried to argue that as<br />
its plane had touched down just less a<br />
than 3-hrs late its passenger had no<br />
right to compensation.<br />
Get up to<br />
£600 per<br />
passenger in<br />
compensation<br />
The 3-hr rule is also about<br />
compensation for a delay, not a<br />
refund of the light ticket cost, so<br />
the amount you are due is fixed<br />
dependent on the delay length<br />
and distance travelled. You can<br />
use the Web Flyer site to check the<br />
distance of your light.<br />
Compensation is also per person,<br />
so for a family of four, quadruple it<br />
(although where a passenger<br />
travels free of charge – a child, for<br />
example – you cannot claim). BUT<br />
compensation is based in euros,<br />
meaning the amount you'll get in<br />
sterling will luctuate, depending<br />
on the exchange rate at the time<br />
the payment is made.<br />
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Know How Much<br />
You Could Get?<br />
Arrival<br />
Delay<br />
Distance<br />
Cost<br />
Compensation<br />
(if you travelled)<br />
Fare Refund<br />
(if you didn't travel)<br />
Under 2 hrs<br />
Any Distance<br />
No<br />
No<br />
No<br />
2 hrs - 2hrs<br />
59mins<br />
Any Distance<br />
May be (iii)<br />
No<br />
No<br />
All lights under 1500km<br />
(eg. London)<br />
Yes<br />
€250 (£210)<br />
3 hrs +<br />
All lights between<br />
1500km - 3500 km (eg.<br />
Manchester - malaga)<br />
Yes<br />
€400 (£340)<br />
3 hrs - 4 hrs<br />
Flights within the EU<br />
only, 1500km +<br />
Flights between an EU<br />
and none EU airport<br />
3500km + (eg. London to<br />
Newyork)<br />
Yes<br />
No<br />
€400 (£340)<br />
€300 (£260)<br />
Yes, If delayed<br />
Over 5 hrs<br />
4 hrs +<br />
Flights between an EU<br />
and none EU airport<br />
3500km + (eg. London to<br />
Newyork)<br />
Yes<br />
€600 (£510)<br />
To Newyork<br />
(i) You're only entitled to compensation if you meet the eligibility<br />
criteria outlined in the guide.<br />
(ii) You're entitled to a refund of your fare, regardless of the delay's<br />
cause.<br />
(iii) Depending on the length of the light, this rule kicks in on<br />
delays of more than two-four hours.<br />
(iv) If leaving an EU airport, or returning to an EU airport on an<br />
EU airline. Sterling figures based on the mid–September 20<strong>16</strong><br />
exchange rate of €1.17 to £1. Rounded to the nearest £10.<br />
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Holiday Sickness Claims<br />
Have you sufered from food<br />
poisoning or sickness while abroad?<br />
Claim with Confidence<br />
Holidays are an important time for all of<br />
us. They are a time to relax and recharge<br />
the batteries. Whilst visiting another<br />
country, we have a right to expect the<br />
hotels that we stay in to maintain the<br />
Speak to a friendly holiday claims<br />
legal advisors today or read our<br />
guide below and find out if you're<br />
legally entitled!!!...<br />
highest standards of health and safety.<br />
Sadly, this is not always the case and<br />
illness can oten result. An illness arising<br />
out of a stay in a hotel<br />
will not only ruin your<br />
holiday, but can also<br />
result in serious long<br />
term<br />
health<br />
problems.<br />
If you were taken ill<br />
on a package holiday<br />
due to food poisoning<br />
or were sick because<br />
the swimming pool at<br />
your hotel was filthy<br />
you can claim<br />
compensation.<br />
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Claim<br />
for?<br />
Slips & Trips<br />
Slips and trips around the<br />
swimming pool are another common<br />
cause of injury and again. If you or a<br />
member of your party has been injured as<br />
the result of an accident in/around your<br />
hotel, they could be eligible for<br />
compensation if the hotel , the tour<br />
operator is responsible.<br />
Food Poisoning<br />
Outbreaks of food poisoning or norovirus in<br />
hotels or resorts or on cruise ships can oten afect<br />
hundreds or thousands of people during their<br />
holiday. This is particularly true on board cruise ships<br />
or at all inclusive hotels and package holidays where<br />
guests are eating at bufet-style restaurants.<br />
Stomach upsets in resorts in countries such as<br />
Egypt or Dominican Republic can lead to<br />
compensation payments from the tour<br />
Bedbugs<br />
operator or hotel.<br />
Bedbugs are one-holiday souvenir<br />
you definitely don't want to<br />
take home with you. If you book a<br />
package holiday and unlucky<br />
enough to stay with bedbugs,<br />
you can claim for compensation.<br />
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There are a number of diferent regulations which may help you<br />
when making a claim, depending on the particular nature of your<br />
accident or illness.<br />
If you book a package holiday through a UK tour operator, most of<br />
the major parts of your trip will be covered by The Package Travel,<br />
Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992.<br />
These regulations say that the tour operator is responsible<br />
for all the diferent parts of your package holiday. This<br />
means that your transport, accommodation, and food<br />
whilst on holiday are all covered by British legislation.<br />
To make a claim under the Package Holidays Regulations 1992, you<br />
have to be able to prove the tour operator showed a lack of<br />
reasonable care and skill in the supply of your holiday. The<br />
regulations say the expected standard of skill and care will be<br />
considered in relation to the reasonable standards in the country<br />
where the accident happened.<br />
These regulations ensures successful claims for clients who have had<br />
complaints about food poisoning and bedbugs whilst on holiday.<br />
For personal injuries sustained whilst in a carriage by sea, for<br />
example on board a ferry, you can make a claim under The Athens<br />
Convention 1974. If however you sustain an injury from an<br />
accident whilst travelling by air, you will need<br />
to claim under The Montréal Convention<br />
1999.<br />
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How long it takes to settle your<br />
travel claim will depend on the<br />
individual circumstances of<br />
your case.<br />
It is important to note that<br />
when making a claim for an<br />
illness or injury that happened<br />
outside of the UK, we have to<br />
give the other side six months<br />
to investigate and respond to<br />
the question of liability.<br />
In a straightforward case<br />
where the other side admits<br />
they were at fault, around 12<br />
months is the typical amount<br />
of time it takes to settle these<br />
types of case.<br />
There are so many company<br />
willing to help you out with<br />
this too. All you need to do is<br />
find the right people. Most<br />
companies provide a no win<br />
no fee service, also known as<br />
a Conditional Fee Agreement<br />
(CFA)<br />
How long will<br />
it take to<br />
make my<br />
holiday<br />
compensation<br />
claim?<br />
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How much<br />
compensation you can<br />
expect to receive for<br />
your pain and sufering<br />
depends on the severity<br />
of your illness.?<br />
The Judicial College Guidelines are referred to by the courts and provide<br />
an indication of the lump sum a person can expect to be awarded for<br />
their illness. In 2011 the Guidelines for food poisoning which apply to<br />
foreign holiday illness compensation claims are:<br />
• £31,075 to £42,460 – food poisoning which has a significant efect on<br />
the individual's domestic and social life and impacts on their work. This<br />
is the most severe type of food poisoning and the individual will have<br />
required hospital admittance for a lengthy period of time.<br />
• £7,700 to £15,510 – food poisoning, such as salmonellosis, which<br />
largely resolves ater four weeks but leaves some symptoms lasting<br />
typically a few years.<br />
• £3,190 to £7,700 – a complete recovery from food poisoning within<br />
two years. The individual is likely to have been admitted to hospital for<br />
a couple of days and will have sufered symptoms including painful<br />
stomach cramps, significant changes to bowel habits and lethargy.<br />
• £737 to £3,190 – the individual may have sufered from severe<br />
stomach cramps and profuse diarrhea for a number of days but will<br />
have made a full recovery within four to six weeks.<br />
ent to over £1,000.<br />
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Spending Too<br />
Much On Your<br />
Utility Bills?<br />
Don't get caught out by<br />
rising energy prices<br />
Energy companies are having<br />
to pay more and more for the<br />
gas they sell on to us because<br />
trade gas prices are rising.<br />
onto us, and our energy.<br />
Bills get more expensive.<br />
Now is the perfect time to<br />
switch to a better deal, so you<br />
don't get caught out.<br />
Some households could save<br />
as much as £670 a year*, just<br />
by switching to a better<br />
energy deal.<br />
It's only a matter of time before<br />
they pass these rising costs<br />
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Switching is the quickest<br />
and easiest way to save on<br />
energy bills<br />
Ater a series of years in which<br />
energy bills have been cut or<br />
remained frozen, costs are tipped to<br />
rise this winter. Some small<br />
suppliers have already raised prices<br />
and the big guns are expected to<br />
push through some hikes too. The<br />
good news is that those who switch<br />
are still likely to be able to save<br />
money, and choose better customer<br />
service or green energy.<br />
Too many customers are sat on<br />
standard variable tarifs wasting a<br />
collective £1.7billion a year,<br />
according to a recent report from<br />
the Competition and Markets<br />
Authority.<br />
Meanwhile falling wholesale prices<br />
are finally filtering through and<br />
smaller energy suppliers are<br />
rocking the market, forcing<br />
increasingly competitive deals.<br />
This means there has never been a<br />
better time to switch to a new<br />
provider and save money on fuel<br />
bills. Those stuck on expensive<br />
legacy deals could stand to save as<br />
much as £300 a year.<br />
Switch<br />
&<br />
Save<br />
The CMA says<br />
switching tarif<br />
is a<br />
well-established<br />
way to secure<br />
big savings:<br />
"There are<br />
already plenty<br />
of competitive<br />
deals out there.<br />
What we need<br />
to do is persuade<br />
customers to<br />
take them up."<br />
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Stephen Murray,<br />
MoneySuperMarket's<br />
energy expert, said:<br />
"While we wait for the<br />
measures to be<br />
determined and<br />
implemented, it is worth<br />
restating that savings<br />
running into hundreds of<br />
pounds a year are<br />
available NOW to those<br />
who switch from a<br />
standard rate to a<br />
competitive fixed rate<br />
tarif."<br />
It says they<br />
should be able to<br />
negotiate exclusive<br />
deals with suppliers<br />
and contact customers<br />
with special ofers. The<br />
CMA also wants a<br />
broader spread of ofers<br />
on the market to increase<br />
choice and lexibility. Its<br />
provisional decision on<br />
remedies for the energy<br />
market are open for the<br />
response, with a further<br />
report due in the summer.<br />
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£<br />
£<br />
£<br />
£<br />
Why should I<br />
compare energy<br />
prices?<br />
Comparing energy prices let you<br />
find the gas and electricity tarifs<br />
that could save you big money<br />
of your bills. Customers could<br />
save up to £670* by changing<br />
their provider. Running a price<br />
comparison, on a site such as<br />
MoneySuperMarket, is quick and<br />
easy.<br />
And you won't get a cheaper<br />
price by going directly to the<br />
provider.<br />
Get in Touch @ www.impospublication.com<br />
Here's what you need to<br />
do to switch:<br />
1. Search on the Internet for<br />
Energy Compare in UK.<br />
2. You will find a lot of websites<br />
ofering energy comparison.<br />
3. There is no harm in trying<br />
out the various services.<br />
4. Enter your details, post code<br />
and current supplier and select<br />
a tarif from the results and<br />
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cyclists and bikers, and road<br />
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A road accident can occur<br />
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• Negligence – this can range from mobile phone<br />
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• Recklessness – driving with no concern for trafic<br />
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• Car malfunction – cars will in most cases have a<br />
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MAKING A ROAD<br />
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT CLAIM<br />
As with all personal injury compensation claims, you would<br />
need to prove that another person was responsible for your<br />
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travelling in or the third party driver).<br />
To help your case, you should take names, addresses and telephone<br />
numbers of any witnesses to the accident and take photographs<br />
of the accident locus if possible. If the third party driver has no<br />
valid insurance, leaves the scene or admits to driving a stolen<br />
vehicle, you should contact the Police immediately and<br />
report the incident. If you are intending to claim<br />
expenses such as prescription costs and<br />
travelling expenses, remember to keep<br />
receipts as evidence.<br />
Here in the UK, it is advisable to seek legal representation to<br />
help you through the claim. Since most people usually<br />
have car insurance, the claim should not be difficult to complete.<br />
Before taking up the legal service option, ensure you understand<br />
how much the process may cost.<br />
How Much Can I Get?<br />
Compensation for each claim varies.Personal injuries can range from<br />
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The peace of mind it provides means<br />
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of women<br />
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$147,800<br />
average<br />
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coverage<br />
on<br />
married<br />
women<br />
61%<br />
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have some<br />
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insurance<br />
coverage<br />
$235,600<br />
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insurance<br />
coverage<br />
on<br />
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You can compare life insurance<br />
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Types of term<br />
insurance<br />
Level-Term insurance pays out a<br />
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policy term. This lump sum doesn't<br />
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What type of life<br />
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• Paying of large<br />
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mortgage<br />
• Family protection,<br />
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ater you've died.<br />
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Increasing term insurance This<br />
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Decreasing cover insurance If<br />
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mortgage, then decreasing term<br />
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IN SERIOUS DEBT<br />
GET A DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN!<br />
A Debt Management Plan is<br />
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Debt management plans are<br />
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1. You can only aford to pay<br />
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2. You have debt problems<br />
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4. You make regular payments to<br />
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ADVANTAGES<br />
1. Swit to implement You will normally be able to get a DMP<br />
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2. Afordable Repayments Your monthly repayments are<br />
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income.<br />
3. Flexibility A DMP is an extremely lexible debt management<br />
solution. If during the plan you need to increase or decrease the<br />
amount you pay you can do this at any time.<br />
4. Home equity does not have to be touched Once you start a<br />
DMP you will be under no legal obligation to try and<br />
remortgage your property and release equity to help repay your<br />
debts.<br />
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DISADVANTAGES<br />
1. No debt is written of<br />
If you start a DMP your creditors will not automatically agree to<br />
write of any of the debt you owe.<br />
2. No Guarantee that Interest will be frozen<br />
Your creditors are not under any legal obligation to agree to your<br />
proposed DMP payments. They cannot refuse to accept the<br />
payments you make but they can refuse to suspend interest or<br />
late payment charges.<br />
3. No legal protection from your creditors The Plan is an<br />
informal agreement. This means that the plan does not ofer you<br />
any legal protection from your creditors.<br />
4. Negative efect on your<br />
credit rating<br />
Once you start a DMP<br />
your credit rating will<br />
be negatively<br />
afected.<br />
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GETTING RID OF YOUR<br />
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Enter an INDIVIDUAL<br />
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An Individual Voluntary<br />
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debts. You agree to make regular<br />
payments to an insolvency<br />
practitioner, who will divide this<br />
money between your creditors.<br />
An Individual Voluntary<br />
Arrangement (IVA) normally last 5<br />
years (in some cases 6 years) ater<br />
which all Your Remaining debts<br />
are written of.<br />
An IVA can give you more control<br />
of your assets than bankruptcy.<br />
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What are the advantages of an IVA?<br />
$ $ $<br />
$<br />
1. Afordable - An IVA involves the debtor repaying<br />
an afordable monthly repayment, based on what<br />
they can reasonable pay ater essential expenses<br />
are taken into account.<br />
2. Stability - As the repayments made are<br />
calculated ater essential expenses are accounted<br />
for, there is no danger of not being able to pay the<br />
essential bills or buy food for the week. Unless<br />
there is a significant change in financial<br />
circumstances, the repayments should always<br />
remain the same.<br />
3. Less Stress - As the IVA is a legally binding<br />
agreement, once it has begun, creditors can no<br />
longer chase the debtor for outstanding money<br />
(provided the repayments are being kept.)This<br />
means there will be no more phone calls or visits<br />
from debt collectors.<br />
4. Financial freedom - by being able to budget for<br />
the IVA, it allows greater financial control, as well<br />
as complete debt freedom once the IVA is<br />
successfully completed.<br />
5. Security - One of the key benefits of an IVA,<br />
unlike bankruptcy, is that the individual should not<br />
have to sell their home. This is because any<br />
mortgage repayments are included in the essential<br />
expenditure calculations.<br />
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What are the disadvantages<br />
of an IVA?<br />
Restricted Banking Facilities.<br />
Due to the IVA, you will not be allowed<br />
to have a bank account with an<br />
overdrat, a credit card or Cheque book.<br />
Duration of the IVA<br />
Unlike Bankruptcy, which usually lasts<br />
for only 12 months, an IVA oten lasts<br />
for 5-6 years, although any outstanding<br />
debt ater this time will usually be<br />
cleared.<br />
Re-mortgage<br />
While an individual in an IVA will<br />
generally not be required to sell their<br />
home, they may be expected to<br />
re-mortgage in order to release equity.<br />
This would normally be expected to<br />
occur within the last year of the IVA<br />
arrangement.<br />
Credit record<br />
As with Bankruptcy, an IVA will be<br />
recorded on an individual's credit<br />
record for a period of 6 years. This is<br />
from the start of the IVA, so even if the<br />
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be a period where the IVA could afect<br />
the ability to get further credit.<br />
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HOW DO I START AN<br />
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A Trust Deed could be the best<br />
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KNOW ABOUT PTD...<br />
A Protected Trust Deed is a formal, Government<br />
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Scotland, that is legally binding on all of your<br />
unsecured creditors. In return for paying what<br />
you can reasonably aford each month (ater<br />
living costs and priority expenditure have been<br />
accounted for), for 4 years (typically), you will be<br />
discharged from any outstanding liabilities<br />
included in the arrangement on completion.<br />
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ADVANTAGES<br />
A large proportion of your<br />
unsecured debts is written of<br />
ater 4 years.<br />
Once accepted all interest is frozen<br />
on all debts within the PTD.<br />
Lower monthly payments based on<br />
sustainability and afordability.<br />
A Trust Deed can stop pending<br />
legal actions if Protected.<br />
A legal binding contract between<br />
you and your unsecured creditors.<br />
Any change in your circumstances<br />
can be catered for in an<br />
amendment or variation if<br />
acceptable to creditors.<br />
As long as you keep to what you<br />
have agreed, your creditors are not<br />
allowed to take further action<br />
against you.<br />
DISADVANTAGES<br />
You may be required to release<br />
any equity in your share of your<br />
home.<br />
Failure to comply with the terms<br />
of a PTD can lead to bankruptcy.<br />
Listed on the Insolvency Register<br />
of Scotland.<br />
Can the impact of career<br />
prospects or current position, e.g.<br />
Policemen, Financial Advisors.<br />
It is likely that credit reference<br />
agencies will record details of<br />
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May limit future credit<br />
arrangements or have an impact<br />
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Details published in the Register<br />
of Insolvencies.<br />
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It's free money, so worth<br />
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Married Couple's Allowance could reduce your tax bill by<br />
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• You're married or in a civil partnership<br />
• You're living with your spouse or civil partner<br />
• One of you was born before 6 April 1935<br />
For marriages before 5 December 2005, the husband's income is<br />
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civil partnerships ater this date, it's the income of the highest<br />
earner. Married Couple's Allowance could reduce your tax bill<br />
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For the 2015 to 20<strong>16</strong> tax year, it could cut your tax bill by between<br />
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So, in a nutshell, one of you<br />
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one of you must be a basic-rate<br />
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Sounds promising – so how<br />
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Funeral costs in the UK<br />
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While the average cost<br />
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