{"id":10,"date":"2010-07-23T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-07-23T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:07:35","slug":"aviva-promotes-life-and-critical-illness-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Aviva promotes life and critical illness coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research commissioned by Aviva has revealed that the British household would only have enough money to cover bills for a fortnight should they or a partner suffer critical illness or death.<\/p>\n<p>According to the research 24% would be able to access only \u00a3100 without borrowing, and that without borrowing the average household would have access to only \u00a3914, under half of average weekly expenditure (\u00a3471).<\/p>\n<p>This is a figure dwarfed by the average Aviva critical illness payout of \u00a378,707.<br \/>\nThe insurer has warned that most Britons are unprepared for catastrophe, with only 37% possessing life or critical illness coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-nine percent of Britons consider it the individual\u2019s responsibility to cover any drop in income, but 17% believe it is the government\u2019s responsibility with 9% expecting loss in earnings due to illness or death be covered by the employer.<\/p>\n<p>Aviva\u2019s Louise Colley has said that proper coverage can help alleviate money worries during a tragedy such as critical illness or death, and has encouraged households to take up life and critical illness coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research commissioned by Aviva has revealed that the British household would only have enough money to cover bills for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}