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Life & Living Insurance at a glance

Life & Living Insurance offers flexible choices for cover so that you can best protect what's important to you.

Each of our Life & Living insurance plans provides financial support following a significant event or trauma. You can choose from the following options:

Life insurance

This pays a lump sum of money if you die or are diagnosed as terminally ill and are expected to die within the next 12 months.

Living insurance

This provides options for financial support following illness and injury.

Serious Illness Trauma

This cover pays a lump sum to you if you're diagnosed with a medical condition defined in the policy, such as severe cancer or a major heart attack.

Income Protection Illness

This cover pays you an agreed monthly amount if you're unable to work because of illness, providing you were previously working at least 25 hours per week for a single employer.

Funeral cover

With any of the above options, you also get complimentary Funeral Cover. This pays a lump sum of $15,000 to help with funeral costs if you die or are diagnosed as terminally ill and are expected to die within the next 12 months.

Life & Living Insurance Estimator

Working out what kind of cover best suits your situation can be tricky. If you don’t quite know where to start, we’ve made things easy with our Estimator tool.

This estimator provides a simple starter for considering what type of insurance may be right for you and how much cover you might need, based on your answers to some general questions and choices you make about the level of cover you would want. It should only take a few minutes and when you’re done, we can email you the results. This isn’t financial advice or a quote, and any indicative premium in the estimator may change after an application is assessed.

What are your options?

Life cover

Provides a lump sum for your loved ones after you die or if you’re diagnosed with a terminal illness and are expected to die in the next 12 months.

How much do you need?

If you were to die, would there be enough money to cover your:

  • family's immediate living costs?
  • existing debts, like mortgages, credit cards and personal loans?
  • funeral expenses?
  • future expenses like education for your children?

Maximum cover amount:

You can apply for any amount of cover.

Money is paid to you, your beneficiary, or your estate

One lump sum payment

Must be 18 - 70 years old to apply

No cover for passing away from self-inflicted harm during the first 13 months of cover

Serious Illness Trauma cover

Provides a lump sum if you're diagnosed with a defined serious medical condition.

How much do you need?

If you were unable to work because of illness, would you have enough money to cover:

  • your current income?
  • the difference between your current income and a disability benefit?
  • your family's immediate living costs?
  • future expenses related to your illness?

Maximum cover amount:

$1 million.

Money paid to you

Full or partial payment of the amount insured depending on the severity of the specific illness

Must be 18 - 60 years old to apply

No cover for any defined cancers in first 90 days

No cover if you die within 14 days of the diagnosis of a medical condition specifically defined in the policy

Income Protection Illness cover

Provides a monthly payment if you can’t work due to illness.

How much do you need?

If you were unable to work because of illness, would you have enough money to cover:

  • your current income?
  • the difference between your current income and a disability benefit?
  • your family's immediate living costs?
  • future expenses related to your illness?

Maximum cover amount:

55% of your gross income, up to a maximum of $6,000 per month.

Money paid to you

Two or five year cover period

Must be 18 - 60 years old to apply

Must be employed for at least 25 hours per week for a single employer

No cover during the first 30 days

Monthly payment may be reduced by your other income, including other payments such as a sickness or ACC benefit