ICICI Lombard General Insurance has started offering the facility of renewing health policies online. Now the customer has the option of changing the tenure of the health policy, the sum insured, to add or remove insured members. The premium can be paid through the net banking account, credit card, debit card or cash card. Once the customer completes the process of online renewal, the insurance company will mail a soft copy of the new policy certificate along with a transaction confirmation SMS; health card; 80 D tax certificate and a free health check-up coupon, the insurance company said in a statement. A hard copy of the renewed policy is dispatched within seven days to the customer's mailing.
ICICI Pru LifeTime and ICICI Pru Lifestage are Unit Linked Pension Plans. Such insurance linked retirement plans are neither good investments nor do they offer sufficient insurance cover. As you can see, these have turned out to be bad deals. In the Lifetime plan, the fund value is not even equal to the total premiums that you have paid and in the Lifestage plan your return is just about 6% which is quite low. The mortality charges are as per your age which is why they have increased. Moreover, once these plans matures, you will have to compulsorily opt for annuity (regular income) and the annuity rates are generally modest. Assuming these plans mature in the next one year, it will be wise to surrender the plan now and curb your future commitments. Before you choose to buy a term plan, you have to consider a few points. You need to insure yourself, only during the time you are working and your family is financially dependent on you. At the age of 59, not all insurance companies w...
