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WOMEN ARE BEARING the brunt of the gender directive that was introduced in December 2012, while men see their premiums drop 30 per cent in the last five years.
The gender directive states that the sex of a person can no longer be taken into consideration when assessing customers. Analysis conducted by Caledonian Life has revealed that premiums in life and mortgage cover for men are dropping across all age brackets but it has all become more expensive for women.
Women who smoke, in particular, have been hit by the introduction of the directive with premiums between one and 25 per cent higher. Before the directive, a ten year analysis showed decreases across the board – for both men and women. However, men and women are now paying the same price for life cover, meaning an increase for females.
The data shows that even male smokers have seen a decrease of between 20 and 24 per cent in life cover in the last five years. Women in their 30s fare worst in mortgage protection with non-smokers seeing a 25 per cent rise in policy prices.
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Caledonian said this news is “mixed” as it highlights the differences in pricing for men and women over the years and reveals that “males have definitely fared better in recent years with marked reductions”.
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Its Mandela’s day. May he rest in peace. And for one day the world is united.
Would Enda spend 27 years in jail for the rights of the Irish people’s rights
If he stayed at home it would be a start.
There are plenty of other articles to whinge about Enda, Gilmore, the government, the banks and life in general.
So get off this one!
May he rest in peace.
The crowds are probably singing their favorite chant ‘Kill the Boers’ and the foreign dignitaries don’t understand their language…so for them it’s a ‘beautiful chant’.
That song is no worse than Irish people continuing to sing Amhrán na bhFiann – the full version of which has lyrics concerning taking up arms against our “Saxon foe”. The fact is that when we sing it nowadays, we are NOT making a call to arms against any oppressor, we are just paying homage to our past and our country’s origins.
I think the point is, whatever they may sing, they did NOT kill the Boers. Get it?
I see Gilmore will be there…Raul Castro will also be contributing an eulogy to Mandela so all the former Stickies should be proud when one of their Commie buddies takes to the stand
Yawn.
I’m surprised there is a lot of empty seats there
#madiba
Just seen Obamas speech .. in one word…it was epic .
Do they have no respect people on phones and talking joke
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