National Heart Month: can you get Life Insurance if you have a Heart Condition?
This February is National Heart Month, a time for each of us to reflect on how we can improve the health of our heart. Living with a heart condition can affect not only the individual but their loved ones too.
Having a heart condition has become one of the most common medical problems among clients who ask us to help them find Life Cover.
Heart and circulatory diseases cause more than a quarter (26 per cent) of all deaths in the UK; that’s nearly 160,000 deaths each year – an average of 435 people each day or one death every three minutes.
There are around 7 million people living with heart and circulatory disease in the UK: 3.5 million men and 3.5 million women.
An estimated 915,000 people alive in the UK today (640,000 men and 275,000 women) have survived a heart attack.
Source: British Heart Foundation statistics
Is it possible to get Life Insurance if you have a heart condition?
Finding Life Insurance that suits your needs can be much harder if you’ve had a heart attack, a cardiac arrest or are living with a heart condition. Moneysworth specialise in helping people find Life Cover even if they have a health condition or have been refused life cover elsewhere.
The most common heart condition we see in our work is a previous heart attack (also known as myocardial infarction). However, over the last seven months, we’ve helped over ninety people with a wide variety of other heart conditions to find life cover. Many of these clients have now successfully started their policy or are currently in the process of applying for cover.
Moneysworth are experts in helping people with heart conditions to find Life Insurance
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to post a series of articles about the circumstances behind some of our clients’ search for life cover: why they needed life insurance, the problems they’d previously encountered when trying to apply for cover elsewhere, and the policy options and prices we were able to obtain for them.
It may surprise you to see how people who are living with a serious heart condition – or even multiple conditions – are still able to find cover, thanks to our team’s expert guidance and assistance.
From 1st July 2018 through to 31st January 2019, Moneysworth helped clients with the following heart conditions to apply for Life Cover :
Angina
Aortic Regurgitation
Aortic Stenosis & Mitral Valve Repair
ARVC (Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy)
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