Thursday, May 1, 2008

remember to shop around for life insurance

Did you know that if you’re a single man (as in unmarried / not in a civil partnership) you will typically be asked to take an HIV test if you wish to insure your own life for more than £300k? For all women and married men, the relevant figure rises to £1m. As no data currently exists for men in civil partnerships (they haven’t been around long enough), some insurers will treat them as single men, and others as married - I’m not sure whether this does, or should contravene the anti-discriminat

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