Postal Life Insurance Interest Rate on Loan

Postal Life Insurance is one of the oldest insurers in India and provides various welfare schemes to people working for financial, government and non-financial institutes. You can visit the official website of PLI to check the interest rate on loan for each scheme.

The Postal Life Insurance was incorporated in 1884 and has been providing employees of central government, state government, semi-governmental bodies, defence personnel and employees of deemed universities with insurance solutions.

The policies offered are traditional plans and do not include unit linked plans, term insurance plans or online insurance plans.

These traditional plans have an age entry limit of 18 years to 55 years of age and each policy offered has its own maturity period upon which the policyholder assured sum with accrued bonuses or the nominee receives the same upon death of the policyholder.

PLI Policies offer the facility of taking out loans at the cost of lowering the bonus received or forfeiting it altogether. The EA policy offers policyholders the option of taking out loans on the completion of 3 policy years. If the loan is taken out before the completion of 5 years, the bonus offered will be null and void and if the loan is taken out after 5 years the bonus received will be low.

Whole Life Assurance policies offer the loans only after the completion of 4 policy years. However, PLI does not offer the option of taking out home loans.

Once the policy taken out has completed the required number of years, the loan facility will be opened and policyholders can take out a loan at an interest rate of 10% p.a.This interest rate is calculated on a six month basis. The loan entitlement or available loan limit will be calculated on a predetermined proportion of the acquired surrender value of the policy

Interest should be paid once in 6 months on or before the 21st of the due month.

Conditions For PLI Loan Application 

If you fulfill the conditions given below, then you will be eligible for a postal life insurance loan application: 

  1. You can apply for a loan after completing three years of Endowment Assurance and Yugal Suraksha policies. 
  1. For Whole Life Assurance and Suvidha policies, the loans are available after four years. 
  1. You can apply for multiple loans, but the insurer must approve them. They will verify whether you fulfill the requirements to submit a loan application or not. 
  1. You can take the loan amount up to 90% of the surrender value of the policy, and the minimum amount of the loan should be Rs.1000.  
  1. For example, if your policy’s surrender value is Rs.10,000, then you can get the maximum loan of Rs.9,000 (90% of Rs.10,000), and the minimum loan must be Rs.1000. 

Availability of Loans in PLI Schemes 

Various PLI schemes provide loan facilities based on the type of policy and the number of years completed. The following table shows the availability of loans under many PLI schemes: 

Scheme Name 

Type of Policy 

Loan Availability 

PLI Suvidha 

Convertible Whole Life Assurance 

After four policy years 

PLI Suraksha 

Whole Life Assurance 

After four policy years 

PLI Yugal Suraksha 

Joint Life Assurance 

After three policy years 

PLI Santosh 

Endowment Assurance 

After three policy years 

PLI Bal Jeevan Bima 

Children’s Policy 

Not available 

PLI Sumangal 

Anticipated Endowment Assurance 

Not available 

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