YOU HAVE YOUR SAY

EVERY week Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails about our stories. Here’s what you had to say about our investigation into pricey life insurance:

ACCORDING to the advert, Parky can’t remember his favourite interview. But I can: it was the one that paid the most. L. P., via email. BEFORE my husband’s death, he took out a policy for me with SunLife, paid monthly by direct debit. It started off at £50 a month and goes up each year by £2.50.

On April 25, 2016, it rose to £60 and will rise each year until April 2032 — when it will be £100 a month. I may find it a struggle to keep up the payments. M. C., Leeds. THANKS to Money Mail for printing the article on rip-off life cover. It may help a lot of people to avoid getting caught in the trap.

Unbeknown to me, my mother took out this cover with SunLife. By the time I found out, it was too late to do anything about it.

When she died in February, it paid out £850.27. She had overpaid by approximately £1,500. R. S., via email. MICHAEL PARKINSON is never going to care about any distress he is causing. He is just greedy. As soon as his face appears I switch channels for approximately three minutes. Please don’t let up on this. G. P., Sussex. THESE deals are a real rip-off. I recently realised my mother started one of these policies after my father died. He was relatively young and she must have felt she was doing a sensible thing.

However, she is now 90 and has paid way more than necessary, but it is impossible to stop or freeze the payments. L. S., Gloucester. SHAME on these ‘stars’ with their snouts in the trough. Haven’t they made enough in their lucrative careers? They know full well many gullible people will fall for their spiel, but do they care? No — not as long as they get their bag of silver. P. B., Cardiff. PARKY, you must be daft. You spent all that time gaining a reputation as a superb talk-show host, but then take a job as an insurance salesman. Are you really that hard up you need to stoop so low? T. S., Ipswich. THEY must be making hundreds of thousands, if not millions, out of these policies. The policy value will not even pay for a funeral. They should be investigated.

DON’T LET PARKY & CO LOCK YOU INTO THEIR RIP-OFF LIFE COVER Money Mail, May 4