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Hello,

 

 

I have been ill and 'signed off' since July last year and was made redundant on 3rd October 2014.

 

 

Capital One PPI only paid for the period of sickness when I was working and are now refusing to continue to pay for the period after as I chose not to sign on.

 

 

Is this right?

 

 

can they refuse to pay as I am not signing on

 

 

even though I am signed off unfit for work?

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you'd have to consult he T&C's you signed up to

how long have you had the card?

 

 

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Not surprised. I had PPI on my CapOne card when I was made redundant and quickly found out that there were so many conditions attached that it was impossible to claim - not least of which was that I had to be signing on and receiving benefits before the claim would pay out. That was when I discovered the whole PPI mis-selling thing.

 

As DX says check the T&Cs but it sounds very much the same as I found

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This sounds like an unfair term which is not associated with the insured risk. Please tell us more about the T&Cs.

 

Sounds contrary to UTCCR and also ICOBS

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In fact ICOBS makes it clear that it is not permitted to reject a claim -

 

8.1.2

(3) for2 breach of warranty or condition unless the circumstances of the claim are connected to the breach and unless (for a pure protection contract):

http://fshandbook.info/FS/html/handbook/ICOBS/8/1

This means that if there is some defect in your performance of the insurance contract which does not affect the risk, such as failing to report a problem within 24 hours or 7 days or whatever the T&Cs say - or equally, in my view, if you refuse to sign on and draw benefits aven though this does not affect your illness, then to refuse the insurance cover on these grounds is unfair.

I think also that the requirement to sign-on as a condition of being paid out for the insurance is unfair under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations.

 

If you have a look at schedule two, you will see a list of examples of unfair terms. They are only meant to be examples and in fact the judges have discretion to decide on a case-by-case basis. However, the examples in schedule two give a fair idea of the kind of thing that might be unfair. Paragraph 2 in the schedule to list of examples is a reasonably close model and it wouldn't take much to persuade a judge to include a requirement of signing on as a condition of receiving the PPI payout – particularly in view of the ICOBS rule which I have quoted above.

 

This is very interesting and I am sure there must be a huge number of people who are affected by this – more examples of insurers trying to weasel their way out. It needs some direct action. I doubt whether the ombudsman would be prepared to get involved because he's too weak. However, I can imagine that a county court action would produce a successful result – better than 80% chance

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