As of last year the FSA (Financial Services Authority) estimated that the cost of compensating consumers for mis-sold PPI policies would end up costing the loan insurance industry upwards of £4 Billion pounds if not more. It is unfortunate that scamming honest Brits of their money for insurance cover is going to place a strain on an already overloaded industry when a bit of ethics in the beginning could have avoided the situation. Since PPI is really intended to protect the consumer against the risk that he or she wouldn’t be able to make loan payments due to duplicate cover or illness the cover should provide peace of mind to borrowers.
However, what is actually happening is that when a majority of PPI policy holders go to file a claim to make payments when they need this cover the most they are denied. According to the Citizens Advice Bureau those consumers were mis-sold PPI because the lender knew full well at the time the policy was sold that the borrower would not be eligible to claim against it. It may not be the insurance companies that are responsible for such a cost to their own industry but they were surely a party to it! Anyone who feels they may have been mis-sold PPI should research the possibility of reclaiming PPI.





