How much compensation you will receive for a mis-sold PPI policy will depend on the type of financial product to which it relates. In other words, it will differ according to whether you have a loan, mortgage, credit card, car finance or other product.
Loan PPI
Loan PPI, the amount of your compensation is going to be governed by the amount of the monthly installments of the loan, how many payments have already been made and the proportion of the loan repayments which relate to PPI.
Would you have purchased PPI at all?
Where you would not have bought any loan PPI policy but for the mis-selling by the lender, you will be eligible to be refunded the total amount you have already paid for PPI, plus interest.
For instance, imagine that you took a five year loan, on which the loan repayments were 200 each month. If the PPI premiums were 25% of the loan repayments, this would amount to 50 monthly in PPI premiums. If 20 months of the loan had elapsed, put simply, you had made 20 payments, the amount of PPI that you would be eligible to have refunded is 1000 (50 x 20 months).
You will also be eligible to claim interest on that sum. Interest is calculated at 8% annually on each PPI premium for the total number of months it has been due.
Would you have bought a different type of PPI?
The situation differs where, but for the mis-selling from the lender, you would have purchased a different PPI policy. This means that, you may still have purchased PPI, albeit a different type of policy. In this scenario, you would only be entitled to a reimbursement of the PPI premiums paid (plus interest) minus the amount you would have paid out for the other PPI policy.
For example, suppose that, as with the example above, you were mis-sold a PPI policy in relation to that the loan repayments were 200 per month, the PPI part of that was 50 and 20 months had elapsed. Had the policy not been mis-sold, you might still have thought PPI the right option. However, you might have purchased a cheaper policy instead, for instance, one on which the PPI element of the monthly loan instalments was 25. In this case, you would simply be eligible for the difference involving the 1,070 and also the amount you would have spent on the other policy. In this example, you’d have spent 500 on this alternative policy, so your refund will be halved. You will just be entitled to 500 (plus interest).
This situation applies equally to a scenario where you were mis-sold a ‘front-loaded’ single premium PPI policy and, but for the mis-selling, you would have bought a typical payment PPI policy instead. In this scenario, you’d be entitled only to the gap between what you paid for the single premium PPI policy and the price of the standard payment PPI policy that you would otherwise have purchased.
Have you had a claim on a policy rejected?
Where you make a claim against the policy that has been rejected, but you could reasonably have expected it to have been paid, you are qualified to receive the larger of the full total of the PPI premiums paid (1,070 in the example above) and the valuation on the claim. In other words, when your claim on the policy would have given out more than the sum you have paid in PPI premiums, you are qualified to receive this amount in the alternative, plus interest. This provides you two options. The lender should calculate which plan is more favourable to you and then pay you this sum.
Have you ever re-financed?
In situations where you were mis-sold a single premium PPI policy, which was subsequently cancelled to re-finance or consolidate a connected loan, your compensation should take account of the cumulative impact of the mis-selling. Many mis-sold PPI policies were effectively ‘rolled up’ in a subsequent loan, which also included PPI. Indeed, this policy may also have been mis-sold. Therefore, if you have re-financed on a number of occasions, you’re likely to be entitled to substantial compensation.
Credit card PPI
The level of compensation to which you may be entitled if your mis-sold PPI policy concerns a credit card can be difficult to calculate, since it is more likely to depend upon variations in the balance. Credit card PPI is often charged monthly as a proportion of the balance, for example, 69p per 100. Therefore, if your credit card balance is prone to significant swings, you are likely to have paid more for PPI in certain months than in others. Essentially, however, the principle continues to be same as you are still entitled to be reimbursed no matter what you have paid for PPI, plus interest. You may be also entitled to claim interest on the notional balance for the months where, were it not for the mis-sold PPI, your balance could have been in credit.
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