Critical illness cover
Get a critical illness cover quote to financially protect you and your family if you are diagnosed with a critical illness and meet the required severity criteria.
Calculate your personalised critical illness premium discount of up to 35% with LifeReturns® to save on your monthly premiums. LifeReturns® is a modern approach to calculating maximum discounts on your monthly critical illness premium using the latest digital technology to quickly and accurately assess your health risk factors that are used to calculate your monthly premium price.
- Receive a tax-free lump sum payout that you can use to pay for your lifestyle adjustments or to offset shortfalls in your medical aid costs.
- Your children will be financially cared for from birth until they are 18 at no extra cost.
- Save up to 35% on your monthly premium with a personalised LifeReturns® premium discount.
What is critical illness cover?
Critical illness cover, also known as dread disease cover, helps pay for additional medical expenses and lifestyle adjustments.
Surviving a critical illness isn’t easy, but with the right cover, you can focus on recovery - instead of the medical bills. Critical illness cover offers financial protection against illnesses such as heart attack, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. It also covers injuries from accidents such as paraplegia, major burns, and brain damage.
This cover pays out a lump sum amount that you can use to pay for additional medical expenses and lifestyle adjustments.
Do I need critical illness cover if I have medical aid?
Consider how you will pay for extra costs not covered by your medical aid.
Advances in medical care mean that people can now survive illnesses once thought to be fatal. Although many people lead relatively normal lives after suffering a critical illness event, you may require financial assistance to cover any lifestyle changes or extra costs not covered by your medical aid.
Medical aid schemes provide decent cover while you’re in the hospital. The problem starts with your out-of-hospital expenses and chronic medication and typically medical aids don't cover cutting-edge experimental treatments. Heart diseases, stroke, and cancer may leave you with a huge financial burden, even if you're on a relatively good medical aid.
How much critical illness cover do I need?
Generally, you should get the most cover you can afford.
Because the financial impact of a critical illness will vary from person to person, there is no scientific way to determine the benefit amount of a critical illness benefit. You should get the most cover you can afford. By adding Longevity Protector™ - critical illness benefit to your critical illness cover you can ensure that your cover will never run out, no matter how long you live with a critical illness.
Critical illness 2022 claims stats
We remain dedicated to protecting our clients’ journeys to success, no matter their challenges. During 2022 we paid R760 million in critical illness claims. The most significant critical illness claim payout was R14.2 million.
Cancer remained the most significant contributor to our critical illness claims in 2022 in both women and men.
What am I covered for?
We offer you complete protection spanning the whole body.
Apart from the big four namely cancer, heart attack, stroke, and coronary artery bypass graft, the critical illness benefits cover numerous other life-changing conditions.
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Additional benefits
You can add these additional benefits to your critical illness cover. Discuss the advantages of taking out any additional benefits with a certified financial adviser.
Specified Claim Event Enhancer
When this supporting benefit is added to the complete critical illness benefit, it enhances the tiered payouts of the 25%, 50% and 75% severities for the four most common critical illnesses, namely cancer, stroke, heart attack and coronary artery bypass grafts, up to 100%.
Longevity Protector™ critical illness benefit
Your cover will never run out, no matter how long you live. If you have a qualifying claim, in addition to the normal lump sum payment under your critical illness benefit, this benefit pays 10% of the critical illness benefit amount every five years for moderate to severe claim events. If you never claim, it will pay you 20% of the critical illness benefit at age 80, through the unique Longevity Enhancer.