Age needs one voice. Now it has:
Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern England and
Help the Aged in England.
Insurance offers protection against things that might happen in the future.
You buy a policy under which the insurance company agrees to pay out if the event insured against happens. The price you pay is called a premium. Common types of insurance relate to:
Get quotes from several insurance companies or use an online price comparison site. Remember that the cover offered by different policies can vary considerably, even if they seem to be the same type.
The cheapest policy may not be the best value if there are lots of restrictions on when you can make a claim and how much for.
Contact the Association of British Insurers for more information on buying insurance. Contact the British Insurance Brokers’ Association to find an insurance broker in your area. The Financial Services Authority can confirm whether a firm is authorised to sell insurance.
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The Association of British Insurers provides information on insurance cover.
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association provides a ‘find a broker’ service.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is an independent regulator.
An information guide on a wide range of financial services.
Downloads
A download is a document (like a research report, a leaflet, or an application form) that can be transferred from our website to your computer. You can download a file, view it on your screen, print it, or save it to your computer.
PDF stands for ‘portable document format’.
Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
Downloads will open on your computer in a new browser window.
Inside this window (below all your web browser menus), there will be a toolbar with options for you to print or save the document.
Close the browser window to return to the Age UK website.
We have made every effort to make our PDFs accessible to screen readers. Here is an overview of your accessibility options available in Acrobat Reader. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Reader website to ensure that they are included in your version of the programme.
You can use Adobe Reader to read a PDF out loud with the following shortcut keys:
You can also convert a PDF into a web page by following these steps:
You can convert a PDF document into a text file for use with other software and hardware such as Braille printers by opening the PDF and choosing ‘Save as text’ from the File menu.
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