{"id":131128,"date":"2025-10-19T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131128\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:53:17","slug":"your-money-questions-what-health-policy-should-we-go-for-now-that-vhi-is-withdrawing-a-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131128\/","title":{"rendered":"Your money questions \u2013 \u2018What health policy should we go for now that VHI is withdrawing a discount?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPlus, car insurance when you turn 80, and being prepared for vet\u2019s bills\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health insurance. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b2e8708f-68b1-40ca-a7d3-9a08f2583e76.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Health insurance. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q We have recently got our renewal notice for two adults on the VHI Company Plan. Last year we were quoted \u20ac2,829, but after much debate about the high cost, VHI agreed to grant us a 5pc discount reducing the cost to \u20ac2,667. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This year\u2019s renewal is \u20ac3,085 which is a 15.66pc increase. VHI is withdrawing the 5pc discount that was granted last year. What do you recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus, car insurance when you turn 80, and being prepared for vet\u2019s bills Health insurance. Photo: Getty Q&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,2107,18,19,17,2108],"class_list":{"0":"post-131128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-charlie-weston","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-money-experts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}