Life doesn't always go as planned and your financial commitments continue, even if your income doesn't.
MoneyPlace has partnered with specialist insurer LFI Group to help ensure that your finances can stay on track, even if something should go wrong.
LFI offers a broad range of innovative credit insurance solutions, so you can have peace of mind knowing that your loan repayments will be taken care of if you are off work due to an illness or injury, or if you are made redundant.
You don’t pay for cover you can’t use.
Simple application with no medicals required.
Full time, part time, casual, contract work and self-employed accepted.
Direct debit or up front payments. Cancel anytime.
This page provides a summary of the key terms only. Any advice is general in nature and does not take your personal circumstances into consideration.
Disability Cover pays your loan repayments if you can’t work because of a serious illness or injury amounting to disability, and features:
Susan has Loan Protection with Disability Cover. As a result of a workplace accident, Susan is unable to work for 180 days. LFI will pay Susan’s loan repayments to her lender for each day Susan is disabled for 180 days.
Mei has Loan Protection for her car loan with Disability Cover. Mei’s car is the family vehicle and Mei is her family’s main income earner. As a result of a workplace accident, Mei is severely injured and makes a disability claim after the qualifying period. LFI will pay Mei’s loan repayments to her lender while Mei remains Disabled. If Mei passes away, the entitlement to disability benefits continues uninterrupted for up to 12 months. This will assist Mei’s family to deal with her loss, without being concerned about how to pay Mei’s lender or losing access to the family car.
Life Changing Illness Cover provides you with immediate cash assistance if you are diagnosed with cancer, heart attack, stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, motor neuron disease or early onset dementia, featuring:
Tanisha has Loan Protection for her $10,000 car loan when she is diagnosed with melanoma. LFI will pay Tanisha a lump sum of $1,500 which she uses to cover travel, child care and time off work incurred when undergoing surgery and chemotherapy.
Unemployment and Carer cover can meet your loan repayment obligations if you lose your job or your business fails, or if you need to leave work to care for a dependent child or spouse. Cover features:
Cameron has Loan Protection with Unemployment and Carer Cover. Unfortunately, he is made redundant from his place of work, and remains unemployed for 7 months. LFI pays Cameron’s loan repayments for each day Cameron is unemployed up to the limit of 6 months.
Hardship Handback Cover helps you to discharge your motor loan if you have been unemployed for 7 months and you can’t meet repayments from income or savings. Hardship Handback Cover pays your lender the difference between the amount needed to repay your loan and the value of your vehicle, less any unpaid premium.
As Hardship Handback Cover is designed to help you finalise your loan, payment of a hardship vehicle handback benefit will end your Policy.
We do not guarantee that a hardship handback benefit will be sufficient to enable you to finalise your motor loan.
Show exampleAsim, who has a motor loan, lost his job and we have paid his lender the limit of 6 monthly unemployment benefits. A month later, Asim still has not found work and cannot afford to keep his car. Asim needs $15,000 to pay off his motor loan and his car is worth $10,000. Asim claims for Hardship Handback Cover and we pay his Lender $4,400, being the difference between the amount Asim needs to repay his motor loan and the market value of his vehicle, less Asim’s unpaid premiums of $600. Asim’s loan protection Insurance ends.
Asim can negotiate with his lender to accept the return of his car or to allow him to sell the car privately to pay off the rest of his loan. Alternatively, as Asim is ahead in repayments, he could decide to keep the car longer while he keeps searching for work.
After you apply for your MoneyPlace loan, if eligible, you will be given an indicative estimate for Loan Protection Insurance from LFI. If you would like to find out more, MoneyPlace will forward your details to LFI who will contact you.
Loan Protection Insurance is entirely optional, and has no influence on loan approval or interest rate.
Apply for your MoneyPlace loan. Loan Protection Insurance is optional and has no influence on your loan approval or interest rate.
Once you have completed your application it typically takes just one business day to receive your approved loan offer. Decide if you are happy and want to accept your loan offer.
If you are eligible, you’ll be shown an indicative estimate of the cost of Loan Protection, and asked if you are interested in finding out more.
The LFI team will contact you shortly after your loan is funded, to discuss your Loan Protection options and complete your application.
You will have a cooling off period during the first 21 days of the Period of Cover.
First you must apply for and accept your MoneyPlace loan. If you are eligible, you will be shown an indicative estimate for insurance directly after you accept your loan offer. At that point if you are interested in finding out more LFI will contact you directly to explain your options and complete your application.
There are two main options you may choose from, which are to take out either Disability Cover — which includes Life Changing Illness Cover — or All Available Cover — which adds Unemployment and Carer Cover and Hardship Handback Cover.
You only pay for the benefits that are relevant to you when you apply. If a benefit becomes relevant during the policy term, you are able to claim regardless of whether you paid for it. For example:
Life Changing Illness Cover
If you are 30 years old or under when you apply, you won’t pay for Life Changing Illness Cover, though you will still be covered if you contract a Life Changing Illness during your policy term.
Carer Cover
If you have no dependents when you apply you won’t pay for Carer Cover, though you will still be covered if you need to leave work to care for a dependent spouse or child during your policy term.
Hardship Handback
If your loan is not for a vehicle, you won’t pay for Hardship Handback, and Hardship Handback will not become relevant to you.
If you change your mind, you may still take out insurance up to 60 days after you accept your loan offer.
A 21-day cooling off period applies. During the cooling off period you can cancel your Policy for a full refund of any premium you have paid (unless you make a claim during the cooling off period).
After the cooling off period you may cancel your policy at any time.
LFI Group Pty Ltd ABN 31 138 903 581 AFSL 413613 is a specialist insurer authorised to provide general insurance in Australia.
LFI is an authorised general insurance company, acting under its own Australian Financial Services Licence. It is the issuer of LFI Loan Protection insurance.
To make a claim, phone the LFI team on 1300 888 318. They will provide you with a claim form and instructions for any additional information required in order to assess your claim.
Important: it’s up to you to decide whether Loan Protection Insurance suits your circumstances. The Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) can help you with this:
Download PDSTo find out more about us and the financial services we provide, you can access our Financial Services Guide.
View our Target Market Determination online, or by phoning us on 1300 888 318.
To find out more about Loan Protection Insurance, confirm details of your policy or to make a claim, contact LFI on:
8:30am – 5:30pm AEST (Mon – Fri)
Level 16, 535 Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000