Are You Covered And Don't Realise It?

Summary: Amanda was 42 when she was given the difficult news that she had ovarian cancer. The West Yorkshire woman received chemotherapy treatment after diagnosis, but Amanda became one of the unlucky ones. She had a bad reaction to the chemotherapy and because of this she was unable to work. So when a tax bill arrived in the post for a large sum of money, re-mortgaging her house felt like the right thing to do.

Amanda was 42 when she was given the difficult news that she had ovarian cancer. The West Yorkshire woman received chemotherapy treatment after diagnosis, but Amanda became one of the unlucky ones. She had a bad reaction to the chemotherapy and because of this she was unable to work. So when a tax bill arrived in the post for a large sum of money, re-mortgaging her house felt like the right thing to do. The building society with whom she had the mortgage asked her to bring along her life insurance papers to support the mortgage application. But to Amanda's surprise, what she thought was a life insurance policy was in fact critical illness insurance instead. She had been paying out