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Health Insurance – Faced with the health crisis and in support of their policyholders, Assurances du Crédit Mutuel and CIC Assurances are freezing the rates on their health insurance policies in 2021¹. This social support measure represents an average saving of €33 per policyholder over one year².

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To support their policyholders’ purchasing power in the face of the economic and social consequences of the health crisis, Assurances du Crédit Mutuel (ACM) and CIC Assurances have decided to freeze rate increases1 in 2021 on all of their health insurance policies for individuals, professionals and companies.
 
Crédit Mutuel and CIC actively apply a social and cooperative responsibility approach that underscores their commitment to helping French citizens at this time, in line with the recommendations of the public authorities.
 
More than 1.1 million policyholders will benefit from this social support measure in 2021 – including more than 770,000 subscribers of individual top-up health insurance. This represents an average annual saving of €33 per insured for this cover.
 
For Nicolas Théry, Chairman of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, “The health cover rate freeze is another illustration of the cooperative support that Assurances du Crédit Mutuel and CIC Assurances provide. This measure will have a direct impact for both individual policyholders and businesses, retailers and professionals with group policies.” 
 
For 50 years, Crédit Mutuel and ACM have demonstrated on a daily basis that a bank owned by its customers changes everything, including insurance,” commented Daniel Baal, Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale and member of the Assurances du Crédit Mutuel executive board.
 
At a time when every act of solidarity counts, we want to ensure that no policyholder has to reduce their health coverage or that of their family. This new decision is part of a package of similar measures taken since the start of the health crisis, including support for healthcare professionals, cooperative recovery payments for professionals, microenterprises and SMEs, and keeping interest rates unchanged on euro-denominated funds of life insurance policies,” added Pierre Reichert, Chairman of the executive board of Assurances du Crédit Mutuel.
 
1 Excluding age-related changes, and, for group policies, changes in contractual provisions  
2 Household spending subject to median inflation of 4.3% (source: UFC January 2021
)
 
Assurances du Crédit Mutuel health insurance:
A comprehensive range of health insurance products and services to support individuals, professionals, companies and their employees:
  • More than 1 million health insurance policies covering 1.6 million policyholders
  • More than 67,000 company group policies
  • Nearly €500 million in healthcare benefits paid out in 2020
  • A unique service: the Avance Santé card, a dedicated, secure payment card that dispenses the holder from paying healthcare costs upfront, even in the event of fee surcharges or non-coverage under the basic healthcare insurance scheme.

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About Assurances du Crédit Mutuel

Since 1971, Assurances du Crédit Mutuel has been devising, designing and steering the offers and services behind the development of the insurance activity of Crédit Mutuel, the inventor of the bank insurance concept.

Operating in the property, personal and life insurance markets and a major player in insurance and social protection in France, Assurances du Crédit Mutuel proposes innovative solutions nationwide for its 12.8 million policyholders (individuals, professionals, corporates and non-profits) through the Crédit Mutuel* and CIC networks.

* Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale (Crédit Mutuel Centre Est Europe, Sud-Est, Ile-de-France, Savoie-Mont Blanc, Midi-Atlantique, Loire-Atlantique et Centre-Ouest, Centre, Normandie, Dauphiné-Vivarais, Méditerranéen, Anjou, Antilles-Guyane and Massif Central), Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe, Crédit Mutuel Maine-Anjou, Basse-Normandie and Crédit Mutuel Océan.

More information at www.acm.fr

Contact

Aziz Ridouan: +33 (0)6 01 10 31 69 – aziz.ridouan@creditmutuel.fr

Mathieu Dehestru: +33 (0)3 88 11 24 64 - mathieu.dehestru@acm.fr

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