VitalityLife, alongside its sister brand VitalityHealth, provides insurance services to the UK market, specialising in selling life insurance directly to individuals, families and businesses.
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Life Insurance
Vitality’s life insurance plan helps protect your loved ones financially if the worst were to happen or you get ill. Your family will get a cash lump sum they can use to cover costs such as funeral expenses, debts or household bills. Monthly premiums are based on your age, height and weight, your health, whether you’re employed in a high-risk occupation, and whether you smoke. Cover with Vitality starts from £9.75 per month.
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Over 50s Life Insurance
Vitality does not offer over 50s life insurance.
Mortgage Life Insurance
Vitality’s Mortgage Protection Plan includes Life Cover which is specifically designed to ensure your mortgage repayments would be covered if you died or fell seriously ill during the term of the plan, offering you peace of mind that neither you nor your dependants would have to worry about the repayments. Cover starts from £9.75 a month.
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Critical Illness Cover
Vitality does not offer Critical Illness Cover, instead it offers Serious Illness Cover, which is different as it pays you out for less severe conditions as well as critical ones. Serious Illness Cover gives you a percentage of your cover amount based on the severity of your condition. This means it pays out on a wider range of illnesses – not just the debilitating or life-threatening ones covered by typical critical illness policies. The plan covers 182 conditions which is more than any critical illness cover on the market. You can include Serious Illness Cover with Life Cover or take it on its own. The maximum amount available at the start of your Serious Illness Cover plan is £100,000 for Dementia and FrailCare Cover and £200,000 for Dementia and FrailCare Cover Plus. Subject to a minimum Serious Illness Cover term of 10 years and a maximum age of 60 at entry.
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Whole Life Insurance
Vitality has four lifelong protection options of cover for you to choose from, so you can decide how your future premiums will change:
– Traditional Whole of Life Insurance – this gives you a basic annual premium which you can choose to keep the same over time.
– Whole of Life Insurance with Premium Optimiser – this offers you an upfront discount and certainty of future price changes with an annual 2.5% fixed premium change.
– Whole of Life Insurance with Interest Rate Optimiser – this offers you an upfront discount and a variable annual premium change of between 1% and 2.75%, based on the Long Term Interest Rate, allowing you to benefit if interest rates rise in the future.
– LifestyleCare Cover – this is Whole of Life Cover that gives you the ability to use some or all of the life cover early if you can’t look after yourself anymore.
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Income Protection Insurance
Vitality’s Income Protection Insurance means you’ll be paid a monthly, tax-free income if you are signed off by your doctor as being unable to work due to illness or injury. You would continue to receive monthly payments until you were able to go back to work, these payments can be vital to ensure you keep up with bills, mortgage repayments, rent or childcare costs. Even if you can’t go back to work, we’ll still pay you an income for the rest of your plan term so you can rest assured that you are fully protected. Up to 60% of your gross salary will be protected for the first £5,000 per month and 50% thereafter. You’ll receive £100 per day if you are hospitalised for over 6 consecutive days.
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Other Services
Vitality offers a range of related services including health insurance, stocks, share and ISAs directly to individuals, families and businesses.
Vitality Reviews and Ratings
Based on over 20,000 Trust Pilot reviews, Vitality has overwhelmingly positive feedback with reviewers happy with the excellent levels of customer service, fast responses, superb claims handling and helpful, friendly staff.
Trust Pilot – 4.3/5 (based on 20,081 reviews)
Reviews.co.uk – 4/5 (based on 8 reviews)
Pros
- A popular, family brand
- Excellent reviews and great customer feedback
- A large range of cover options to choose from
- Up to 40% off life insurance premiums for the first year
- Critical illness plan covers 182 conditions, more than any other cover on the market
- A helpful, informative website
- Useful online resources and supporting documents
- 5 Star Defaqto Rating
Cons
- Premiums based on lifestyle and occupation factors
- Wellness ‘status’ will be determined by a 30 minutes examination which measures your blood pressure; Body Mass Index; glucose and cholesterol levels
- Over 50s Life Insurance not offered
- Contact centre not open on weekends
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