Vitality mortgage plan 'aligns SIC with CIC'

Earnings guarantee insurer's ‘most significant’ IP addition

Adam Saville
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'New features are overwhelmingly positive but they will come with a price,' says F&TRC's Adam Higgs

Vitality has today announced a plan designed specially to protect mortgages - including its new serious illness cover (SIC) protector - alongside a string of income protection enhancements. Read about it in full here. Describing Vitality's severity-based plans, wellness programmes and rewards as a ‘marmite proposition' for advisers, with some buying into its offerings and other finding them too complicated, F&TRC's Adam Higgs has praised the insurer's latest changes. Mortgages "The big issue Vitality has faced in the mortgage market is that it is seen as too complicated compared to...

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