Halifax Building Society Insurance in general

Halifax Building Society Insurance in general: Halifax told me I had no MR insurance (529 words)
by Karol Elliott - written on 10/04/08
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I've had mortgage repayment insurance for the past 20 odd years and used it in 2001/2, I can say my experience was very positive, maybe they were still a building society then! When I took out my insurance originally there was no such thing as Halifax insurance, it was just the Halifax. Anyway, September 2007, I looked in danger of being made redundant again, and I called to check my details to be told I no longer had a policy. Having remortgaged earlier in the year I thought that I must not have ticked the right boxes and I'd been a plonker, I checked all my remortgage paperwork and sure enough no mention of the insurance or the separate premium for it. Just to ...  Read the complete review

HALIFAX HOME INSURANCE - BEWARE THE FIRMS THEY USE (277 words)
by SANDRA HULLAND - written on 23/04/07
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Yes beware of the Halifax buildings insurance people. they sounded good but the company they sent in was not good. i HAVE MORE DAMAGE NOW THAN WHEN THE JOB STARTED. They did not do what I was told was necessary and presumably Halifax paid them for five days works when they only did just over two. They failed to do the whole job, and took short cuts on what they did do. They threw rubbish in the road outside, and I had to pressure wash the drive and the road when they had gone. They left the rooms in a worse state than when they came. Everybody says they are sorry, but no consideration is being given while they take their time to sort things out (28 days to ...  Read the complete review

Halifax Building Society Insurance in general: Try Cancelling by telephone! (255 words)
by - written on 05/03/03 (Somewhat useful, 260 readings)
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My experience of this company has now driven me to commence the Small Claims Procedure against them (I've never had to take recourse to the courts in all my fifty years). It took them three months to stop taking direct debits from my account (via the Halifax Building Society). I had a very long conversation with their helpdesk in November 2002 when I first instructed them that I wished to cancel my payments to them. I followed by letters (which also got lost- very odd that isn't it?) and faxes to System faxes which take days to arrive (how odd I thought faxes were supposed to speed up things) followed by copies of faxes and letters to people who turned out to be ...  Read the complete review

Health Hazard (2420 words)
by - written on 28/02/03 (Very useful, 2071 readings)
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We moved to our previous home over five years ago now, and at the time we nearly doubled our borrowings, so it was quite a big decision. We decided that we would take out Mortgage Repayments Insurance to protect us against redundancy primarily, although the cover does also pay out in the case of sickness. We took our mortgage out through the Halifax, and they provided us with a quotation for their Redundancy cover. Initially, our cover was about £37, and would pay out £750 in the event of redundancy or sickness. However there was a hike in the premiums a couple of years later and we now pay £45.32 a month for the same level of cover, equating to £6 per £100 of ...  Read the complete review

Express Review on Halifax Building Society Insurance in general
by - written on 07/09/01
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Above average overall. We have savings, investments, current accounts & insurance with them. - Advantages: Cheap, Efficient, Polite - Disadvantages: Junk mail, Try to sell over the counter, Won't give me a credit card!