Prior to completing this form please ensure that you fully understand all the questions and notes.
Section 1: Eligibility
Membership of the Plan is voluntary.
Before you give us your personal information it is important that you know what your data protection rights are and how and why we use your personal information. This is set out in the Irish Life Data Privacy Notice which is always available on our website at www.irishlife.ie/privacy-notice or you can ask us for a copy
Section 2: Member Details
Please use both the first name and surname in your employee records
Applicants must be over 18 and under 60 years old
Section 3: CWU Member Employment & Cover
*Claim Benefit paid based on your age at the time of the claim.
Member Life Cover Selected
(Your premium increases to the normal rate at age 35)
Important: The maximum amount of lump sum death benefit Revenue will permit to be paid is four times salary, taking into account all similar benefits arising under retirement or death benefit insurance
Warning: The current premium may increase after the next review of the scheme at 01/06/2028.
Section 4: Medical and Other Information
Please read the question below and ensure that you fully understand each question before answering it.
Warning: The current premium may increase after the next review of the CWU Life Plan scheme at 01/06/2028.
Warning - Please read the declaration below carefully and ensure that you fully understand it before signing it. If you cannot complete this declaration, please contact your financial advisor for further information.
Any words in the singular also mean the plural as applicable (e.g. ‘I’ means ‘we’ and ‘my’ means ‘our’ etc.)
Life Declaration
You must tick each statement to confirm you have read and understand the Declaration.
*Actively at work today. This means you are:
- Working your normal contracted number of hours
- Have not received medical advice to refrain from work
- Are mentally and physically capable of fully performing the normal duties associated with your occupation
- Those on paid or unpaid maternity leave are considered 'actively at work'
- Those on a career break or other forms of unpaid leave are not considered 'actively at work'
- Under the age 60
Section 6: Salary Deduction Mandate
Please deduct from my salary the appropriate contribution under the selected plan(s).
I recognise that these deductions, being made solely as a measure of convenience to me, may be terminated at any time.
I also recognise that the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that the deductions have, in fact, been made from my salary rests with myself, and that, beyond making remittances in accordance with the arrangements approved, the employer accepts no responsibility of any kind in that matter.
Confirmation of Scheme Membership
Irish Life will assess the potential risk of insuring you and then make a decision on your application. This may involve attending for a medical examination. Your application may be:
> Accepted - If you are accepted as a member of the scheme your cover will begin from the date Irish Life accepts your application and you will be sent a formal acceptance letter confrming that you are a member of the scheme.
> Postponed - This means that due to you current medical circumstances, Irish Life cannot make a decision on your application but will review a new application form from you in a certain period of time eg 12 months. you will be sent a formal letter confrming your application has been postponed.
> Declined - This means that Irish Life is refusing your application for membership of the scheme. You will be sent a formal letter confrming your application has been declined.
If you application is postponed or declined, you can ask Irish Life to provide the reason for this decision, which may in certain circumstances be provided to you through your GP.
Completed forms should be returned to: Halligan Insurances, William Norton House, 575 North Circular Road, Dublin 1
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