Should insurance affect home loan balance?

icarusza

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I've just noticed that my Nedbank home loan statement adds home insurance as a line item. That means it's affecting my total outstanding balance, and I'm paying interest on the slightly larger outstanding balance.

Is this normal? It makes no sense to me.
 

zerocool2009

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Fnb had it also years ago! You could choose current or bond.

I always opted for a yearly debit order from my current account.
 

Quintrix

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Not normal - should not be part of outstanding balance calculation. If what you say is true, submit claim for all interest paid to date and report to ombudsman. Not sure if it should be banking or insurance but just do both for the heck of it.
 

Hemi300c

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I've just noticed that my Nedbank home loan statement adds home insurance as a line item. That means it's affecting my total outstanding balance, and I'm paying interest on the slightly larger outstanding balance.

Is this normal? It makes no sense to me.
Never take a bankers policy, they are k@k wordings and the premiums are in most cases ridiculous.

And if you never agreed to the policy force them to cancel and refund you. But you probably signed it off in the contract.

Also on personal lines you have to be given alternatives which banks never do not even at inception or during the years. This is actually against the fais rules.

Did they ever go through the policy, covers, excesses and exclusions with you.

Kick them to the curb and get the building insured through a decent insurer with your other insurances.

Having said the above sometimes its best to let the bank cover a undesirable risk.
 

heartbroken

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They pulled the same crap we me on my last place, told them I did not want the policy as I know it is rubbish. When the documents came, they “accidentally” included it and then said they have to redo everything. I signed as the OTP had a clause that the seller could exit if the bond took too long.

Fought them for weeks afterwards, eventually they credited the bond account and cancelled the policy.
 
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