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Covered even if you've been away from home for over six months
When I started looking for travel insurance to cover my husband and I, I ran into a big problem. Most companies, well, the ones that I felt comfortable with, did not cover you if you didn't leave from an Australian port for this trip. Which means after six months (the length of most airfares) you would not be covered. We are travelling the world for a few years, so this was going to be a big problem. I rang TID and also sent a follow up email so that I had it in writing that I would be travelling for a few years, so would I be covered? They said as long as I intended to come home eventually, then yes. And of course we do intend to go home, just not now. But you never know if this is true until you put in a claim. I became in ill in Canada and put in a claim,16 months after leaving Australia. It was accepted. So I will feel much better taking out our next 12-month policy. It was more expensive than some of the others, but if the other's don't pay when they should, you have wasted your money.