Insurance
Windscreen Cover For Windscreen Damage
Monday, May 4th, 2009A couple of weeks ago I had volunteered for canteen duty at my daughter’s school. I got there early, parked my car in the usual place and was all set for a busy day. It was a hectic but a fun day. I finished my duty at around 1:00 pm and was looking forward to [...]
Child Care Costs Insurance - Kids Cover Review
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008The policy reimburses your child care costs, when your child is unable to attend child care due to illness.
Child Care Costs Insurance Cover
Sunday, August 17th, 2008My two year old son started child care in July. He goes to care two days a week. However since starting the care, he fell sick numerous times and as a result had to miss out on care for about 4 days already. I have an older child who went through child care as well. [...]
Home Warranty Insurance Scheme
Monday, July 14th, 2008Home Warranty Insurance is also known as builders’ warranty or home indemnity insurance. This is a mandatory insurance in all states. A builder who is renovating or building a new home has to take this insurance. The builder takes the insurance and passes on the cost of this insurance to the client. Before the construction [...]
Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Insurance
Monday, July 7th, 2008For a few years now we have had our comprehensive motor vehicle insurance with NRMA. This year, I decided to shop around - And the shopping was all done from the comfort of my own desk. Most big insurance companies (like AAMI and GIO) have an online quote system. This system takes you through a [...]
Private Health Insurance Rewards
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008In March 2008 Government approved premium rises for health insurance. The insurers were asking for around 5.21% increase but the government negotiated it down to 4.99%. The private insurers have said that the increase in premiums is due to the rising costs of health related services.
In mid March 2008 I received a letter from my [...]
Private Health Insurance Rebate
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008To reduce the burden on public health system, the federal government implemented two initiatives to encourage us to take up private health insurance. The first one is more like a fine that people earning above a certain level get charged if they don’t take up private health insurance. The second is the ‘rebates’. Every one [...]
Insure Unborn Child - A New Policy From ING
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Last week ING Australia announced that it will be offering insurance cover for unborn babies (’baby cover’). The baby cover policy is an optional extra in ING’s top life insurance policy, ‘One Care’ policy. The full details of the policy has not been released yet.
I called them and asked for a pds document and they [...]
Income Protection Insurance (Disability Income Protection)
Monday, April 28th, 2008Ever wondered what you would do if you have an injury or sickness as result of which you have to quit your work (either for a few years or even worse - forever)….Scary thought….How would you pay your mortgage, car loan, bills etc….Very Scary - But the truth of the matter is, it could happen [...]
