Loan Moratorium Waiver Benefit by Govt – Get Cashback in your bank account soon!
There is good news for those loan borrowers who didn’t opt for the loan moratorium benefit which was introduced by govt due to the pandemic. The govt has decided to pay the interest on the interest of the loan outstanding and pass on the benefit in form of cashback to loan borrowers. Let me explain […]
Corona Rakshak Policy – Get paid when you catch Covid-19
Health Insurance companies have recently launched one more corona specific health insurance policy called as Corona Rakshak Policy” as per the IRDAI guidelines. This is a benefit based health insurance plan which pays you a lump sum amount when you are diagnosed of covid-19 and are hospitalized for continuous 72 hrs. Features of Corona Rakshak […]
Corona Kavach Policy – Get insured and save high medical bills
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of fear and anxiety in our lives because there are no vaccines or any cure available for this illness. If anyone gets COVID +ve there are chances that there may be huge medical bills running into lakhs of Rupees. In case you don’t have big health insurance, […]
3 months EMI Moratorium benefit – Why you should NOT opt?
Today, there was a news about 3 months moratorium (which means a temporary relief) benefit on all kind of loans and how investors won’t have to pay their EMI for 3 months. However it was celebrated by investors without understanding it fully. So I thought of clarifying some doubts regarding it and to share with […]
Will your insurance company cover Coronavirus (Covid-19)?
As I write this, Coronavirus is already spreading in India and there have been 148 positive cases in India. 3 people have died. Coronavirus is spreading across the world and has killed so many across the world (especially China, Italy, Iran, and Spain). A lot of us have bought life and health insurance policies and […]
2 big reasons why markets are falling?
Sensex is down by 7.96% today In the last 1 month alone the markets have corrected by 23% and it was one of the fastest and steepest declines ever in the history of stock markets in India (and globally) A lot of equity investors are very new to this game and many might be wondering […]
5 Major Changes in Budget 2020 (NRI Taxation Myths + New vs Old Slab)
Budget 2020 was a big event. For last so many days before the budget, there was this noise and expectations around raising 80C limits, change in tax slabs, and reversal of Long term capital gains tax on equity or at least giving the benefit of Indexation in equity taxation. However, nothing like that happened. Infact, […]
Arogya Sanjeevani Policy – A uniform health insurance plan (REVIEW)
IRDA has recently announced the launch of health insurance policy called “Arogya Sanjeevani Policy” (official link) which will have standard features which are required by a common man for his health insurance requirement. IRDA thought of a standard policy which will be exactly same across insurers with similar features. In this review, I plan to […]
5 changes in PPF rules which will impact you (PPF scheme 2019)
On 12th December, the Government of India has notified some changes to the PPF Scheme 1968. The government has replaced the earlier PPF Scheme, 1968 to the new Public Provident Fund (PPF) Scheme, 2019. You can view the following 5 min video I created on this topic. Let us see what changes have been made […]
75% of EPF can be withdrawn just after a month of unemployment
EPF is a long term retirement saving scheme. Therefore, it can be withdrawn fully(100%) only after retirement. And early retirement is not considered until the person reaches 55 years of age. However, if you get unemployed for a period of not less than 2 months, then as per the old rule of section 69(2) of […]