What Is PPI?

PPI is a controversial financial product that has been found to be mis-sold to millions of customers of the UK’s largest banks and lenders over the last 6 years. It is estimated that 30 million PPI policies have been mis-sold in the UK, lenders such as Alliance & Leicester, Lloyds and RBS have been fined several million pounds for being found guilty of mis-selling PPI.

PPI is a financial product that covers you from being unable to meet repayments on a loan or credit card because you have suffered an illness, sickness or accident that have prevented you from earning an income sufficient to meet repayments. When you have been mis-sold PPI it often means that you are in fact in-eligible to make a claim against the PPI policy if and when it was needed, meaning it is useless.

Often customers have been mis-sold on similar grounds, the most common reasons for being mis-sold PPI are as follows:

• The lender added PPI to your account without your consent or knowledge.
• The lender told you that having PPI on the account would increase your chances of being accepted on your application
• The lender neglected to tell you about the policy exclusions including illnesses such as bad backs and stress and how that would effect your policy
• The lender did not inform you that you could infact get PPI cover from elsewhere and in many cases this is often cheaper
• You were unemployed, self employed or retired at the point the policy was taken out

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