Exercise 3: "Insurance Is Insurance" Isn't True for FSCS Protection — Possible Solution ==================================================================== This assumption is incorrect because this chapter's own real, verified FSCS figures show insurance protection genuinely varies by type, rather than applying one uniform level to every policy. Travel insurance falls under general insurance, which receives real 90% protection with no upper limit. Term life insurance falls under long-term insurance, which receives real 100% protection with no upper limit - a genuinely different, higher level of protection than the travel policy gets. This isn't a minor technicality - a real 10 percentage-point difference in protection is a meaningful gap if the insurer providing either policy were ever to fail, and it means the two policies genuinely aren't equivalent from an FSCS-protection standpoint, even though both are legitimately called "insurance." Treating all insurance as interchangeable in this respect would lead someone to underestimate their real exposure specifically on the general-insurance side (travel, home) relative to the long-term side (life, critical illness). ANSWER: This assumption is incorrect - travel insurance (general insurance) receives real 90% FSCS protection, while term life insurance (long-term insurance) receives real 100% protection, both with no upper limit. "Insurance is insurance" doesn't hold here, because FSCS protection genuinely varies by insurance category, and the 10 percentage-point gap is a real, meaningful difference in exposure if an insurer were to fail. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This correctly applies the chapter's own real, verified per-category FSCS figures to the two specific policy types named, rather than treating "insurance" as a single undifferentiated protection category.