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25 Ways To Reduce Your Insurance Premium

September 5, 2012 5 Comments

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Insurance is needed in our lives.  Insurance is defense and we need them to protect our finances. Now, talking about insurance covers, many find either the company intimidating or the explanations about policies tedious. How do you avoid this dilemma and jump right into a decision about that insurance premium that you covet so much?

The payment that one remits in every instalment, to the insurer determines the rate of payback in case the insured risk occurs. The question on top of people’s minds then is how to lower the rates and still enjoy a great service.  The following tour into the niche gives tips on at least five types of cover.

How to reduce insurance premium

 Auto Insurance

Deductibles: it is the rule of the game that the greater the payments for deductibles are, the better the chances of your insurance costing less. This is why forgoing a 200 dollar-charge and opting for a 500-dollar charge can decrease the instalment figure by the fraction of a quarter the normal amount.

  1. Go for cheap automobiles: the costlier a vehicle is, the greater the chances of its risks increasing and thus the premiums. Instead of a state-of-the art hybrid, why not settle for a classic salon car and pay less for it?
  2. Seek to include vehicle safety accessories: these include fog lights, automated safety belts, and a hi-tech brake-system. These compound the level of security against risks that every insurer will always consider when writing down a cover figure.
  3. Migrate to a secure neighbourhood: this is another aspect that reduces the premiums because of the fact that burglary reduces in safe locales. This is why one who resides in high-security zone pays relatively small amounts.
  4. Shun covers that relate across the board: there are certain policies that are shared in various insurance types.

Health Insurance

To get along in health insurance and pay less, here are a few snippets of information to follow:

  1. Take cover as a family: there are various federal agencies in the United States, for example, that give all family members equal access to one cover while paying a single premium.
  2. No history of disease: persons with no history of chronic ailments in their families have less to pay than those with a genetic malady because the rate of the risk happening is lower in their case.
  3. Take advantage of retrenchment benefits: if one is jobless in the US now, there is a chance to perpetuate his or her policies through their married partners’ covers. This is a worthwhile scheme to reduce expenses until one gets a new place.
  4. Simply know that for the easiest deals, you better be young. The elderly have costly rates because of their vulnerability.
  5. Know more about the government policies around, such as, Medicare in the US. Some of the details aim to help people lower their instalment rates.

Homeowners Cover

As many more people own property, in the contemporary context, their policies are also evolving quite fast. Here are five tips to reduce premiums amounts for your home:

  1. Consider land as separate from the other immovable assets. Those who feature only their standalone residences rather than the land they own pay less than those who overlook the attribute.
  2. As with auto cover, one can raise their deductible amounts by about double what they are paying currently. For example, raising the figure from five hundred to a thousand dollars increases the likelihood of receiving claims that are way high.
  3. Security of the premises: If the neighbourhood is prone to burglary, then it implies that the rate will be greater than one that is safer. Thus one may have to purchase property in a safe locale.
  4. Aim only for the current equity or purchasing value of your residence. Otherwise, you may aim to cut across the growth rate of the home only to suffer the qualms of over-insuring.
  5. Finally, reduce home assets in the cover to remit low premiums.

Even if you do not own your home, you can protect your assets and save money on your rental insurance costs in the process. Renters insurance provides you with full protection in case the unforeseen occurs, since your landlord’s insurance is unlikely to cover you. There are affordable insurance options available, such as the plans offered by AARP, which allow you to save money without having to accept less coverage for your money. You can even ask for a free AARP home insurance quote, providing you with all of the information that you need to make this important decision.

Life Policy

Life insurance has the following merits that one can take advantage of to reduce premiums:

  1. Reconsider earlier covers since contemporary ones are slightly cheaper.
  2. Include only one cover per person to reduce premiums.
  3. The older one is, the more expensive the cover becomes.
  4. Increase the deductible rate in order for descendants to claim higher payouts.
  5. Seek a long-term cover since it naturally reduces rates due to the time impact.

Long-term-care Policy Covers

Here are few tips to by which to decrease payable premiums:

  1. Make the period when one solicits for benefits minimal. A 36-month interval can do.
  2. Inter-lock two policies, like those of couples, in order to leverage premiums and still get short-interval benefits.
  3. If your credit ratings are high, it is highly likely to remit budget-worthy rates.
  4. If one’s history of insuring in different polices is impressive, it can lower in this particular cover too.
  5. Finally, reduce the claims frequency to enjoy cheap rates.

How much is your insurance cost and what tactics you adapted to lower this cost? Share your story below.

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  1. [email protected]&More says

    September 5, 2012 at 9:03 AM

    My favorite way is to make sure you aren’t over insured. Some people like to get crazy limits they don’t really need and can save money by scaling back to what they actually need.

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    • SB says

      September 5, 2012 at 11:05 PM

      yes you are right Lance! Often we do that mistake. I don’t think you’ll need a renter’s insurance if all you have is a bed and a chair in your apartment.

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  2. Michelle says

    September 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM

    We have a $500 deductible on our homeowner’s insurance, which they don’t even offer anymore. Jeff has been with this company since he started driving, so he’s grandfathered into this low deductible! You can’t use it often or the company will drop you, so thankfully we haven’t needed to use it since moving into our home 8 years ago. But now, it’s looking like we’re going to get a new roof for a $500 deductible, thanks to some nasty hail damaging our roof and causing a leak. A blessing in disguise of a curse! Hopefully, the assessor will find it’s due to the hail storm and hopefully…it doesn’t leak too much more before we can get it repaired/replaced!

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  3. DC @ Young Adult Money says

    September 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM

    I think with health insurance there really isn’t a TON of ways to get the premium down. Almost all the plans end up being the same cost over time (it’s just a matter of whether you pay in high premiums or if you have to cover more initial costs through a high deductible). I’d say the best way to save on health care is to compare costs of procedures. I once saved $700 by getting a CT scan at a place that charged only $300 vs. the place I was referred to that would have charged me $1,000. Same procedure, same quality, way lower price.

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  4. search here says

    January 11, 2013 at 7:57 AM

    This blog is very useful. For example this article describes a lot of important facts about Insurance policies and the funny thing is that most of us common people are ignorant about it. Thanks to the team behind the blog for providing us with such wonderful articles.

    Reply

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