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Credit Involuntary
Unemployment Insurance (Credit IUI) program designed for lenders,
protects lenders and their borrowers against exposures caused by
a borrower's involuntary unemployment.
Designed to
relieve borrower anxiety when making a large purchase such as a
home or automobile.
Credit IUI pays the monthly installment payment during the period
of unemployment after a specified waiting period.
Credit IUI can
be sold on auto loans or leases, retail installment loans, or in
conjunction with association memberships, utility services, or other
contracts or benefit programs.
Credit IUI may
be sold on a blanket basis, in which the policy insures all loans
originated by a lender, or may be sold to individual borrowers on
a voluntary basis at loan origination.
Benefits
to the lender:
- Increased
loan or lease volume due to greater customer confidence
- Enhances
credit quality of the portfolio and improves portfolio performance
via reduced delinquencies and defaults
- Covers escrowed
property tax and insurance premiums which maintains the lender's
security interest on their mortgage portfolio
- The credit
enhancement provided by Credit IUI coverage may allow lenders
to decrease interest rates which will increase volume
- Source of
fee income
Benefits
to customers:
- Relieves
customer hesitancy about large purchases
- Financial
assistance during personal economic hardship
- Simple claims
procedures based on eligibility for state unemployment benefits
- Preserves
customer's credit rating
- May reduce
monthly payment in certain
This product
is underwritten out of our Home Office in Cincinnati. As a service,
FIS will assist our agents in: making contact with the Underwriter,
obtaining an Application, and presenting submission material for
review by the Underwriter.
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