| div class="googleright"> | | | | The insurance that immediately springs to mind is life |
| If you work for the financial security of yourself, | | | | cover. This is where you insure yourself for a certain |
| spouse or children, what would happen if you were | | | | amount, which will be paid out to your dependents if |
| unable to work - or worse still - to your family if you | | | | you die. The set amount would be paid whether you |
| died? Insurance for life, critical illness or permanent | | | | suffer a premature death or live to a ripe old age - as |
| illness is readily available and easily understood. | | | | more and more people are doing. With some policies |
| We'd rather not think about it, but the fact is that | | | | premiums cease once you get to 70 or so, but the |
| around a third of us will suffer some form of cancer | | | | cover is still the same. As this insurance pays out after |
| before we reach retirement age. That's why it's really | | | | your death, it's not essential if you haven't anyone |
| important to do what you can to find some way of | | | | dependant on you. Recent research shows that one if |
| being financially secure should illness strike. | | | | five people have no life insurance in place. |