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We know that claiming can be difficult and have tried to keep things as simple as possible.
If you need to make a claim on either a life insurance policy, a Critical Illness Cover or Child Critical Illness Cover, please call our contact centre on the below number. We will then send out a claim form for you to complete to make sure that the claim can be processed as smoothly as possible for you.
Useful information to have when calling us
If you don't know it, a name and date of birth will be enough
If you're claiming for a Critical Illness on behalf of a family member
We’re backed by the Scottish Friendly Assurance Society who paid 99.5% of all life insurance claims in 2019. We’ll do our best to help you through your claim.
Ensuring that you have the advice and guidance of professional nurses during a Critical Illness claim, at no extra cost to you.
This is dependent on what decisions you have made during your application. With a Budget life insurance policy you can place your policy into a Trust, which means that you can decide and name who has the responsibility of distributing your pay-out.
We understand that being diagnosed with a critical illness can be difficult, so we’ve tried to keep claiming simple.
If you need to make a claim for Critical Illness or Child Critical Illness, please make sure that you’ve read through the Terms and Conditions document and that the illness you’re claiming for is covered by your life insurance policy with Critical Illness Cover.
We’re currently experiencing a high volume of calls into our contact centre and whilst we are doing our very best to maintain service levels, we ask that you only call our contact centre if absolutely necessary so we can keep our phone lines available for vulnerable customers and those who don’t have access to online services.
If you need to check any details or make a change to your policy, please log in to your Self-Service Centre. It will be much quicker for you to make changes to your policy online at the moment. Once logged in, you can also use our Webchat service which is available Monday- Saturday 8am-6pm and Sunday 10am-4pm to make changes, accept or decline your renewal or if you need to let us know about a claim. To log in, please click here.
We also have some other information that may be useful. Click here to read our FAQ’s, and information on what we are doing to support key workers can be found here.