Cheap California car insurance

 

October 5, 2007 by · Leave a Comment
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If you live in the state of California and own a fast high performance muscle car, but have found that you are unable t afford any kind of auto insurance coverage, then you might be eligible for California’s Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program, which is operating in most areas of the state. There are several requirements for joining the cheap California car insurance program, which allows low income drivers to have the minimum California car insurance coverage for under three hundred dollars a year.

  • You have to be a good driver.
  • Make under a certain level of income every year.
  • Live in one of the forty two counties that currently offer the program.

There have been some questions as to whether or not the Low Cost Autombile Insurance Program in California will cause a rise in taxes, even though it has been in state for almost ten years, starting in the year 1999. However, there is nothing for California constituents to worry about. The amount that they charge the people who join this program is enough to cover the car insurance premium that they need for their real risk level. The reason that these people might not be able to get a good car insurance policy otherwise is because of their credit or other factors not related to their driving ability that affect their car insurance premium.

This cheap California car insurance program is an effort to cause a decline in the amount of drivers in the state that are driving without insurance. Right now in California, three and a half of its drivers do not have any type of insurance. Every year about a hundred thousand letters go out when car insurance companies inform the department of motor vehicles that there has been a lapse in a driver’s coverage. If you have a car registered and insured, then car insuance companies are required to notify the DMV when there is a lapse and whenever you start up your policy again.

As a matter of fact, this cheap California car insurance program is not even funded by the tax payers. Instead, its funding comes from the car insurance companies themselves. The program is handled under the state assigned risk pool, which is also funded by the auto insurance companies. This way, people who don’t have the money for their car insurance and are good drivers are able to get car insurance and not cost the taxpayer anything.

The state insurance commissioner has expressed hope that the longer this program goes on, the fewer uninsured drivers there will be. However, there is no day when there will be zero uninsured drivers in the state of California. After all, the cheap California car insurance program does require that you are a good driver, and so the low income bad drivers are going to be left out, and there are many other reasons why someone might not be able to get car insurance coverage in that state. However, the cost of uninsured drivers does cause car insurance rates to rise, and since the program was instated and it took care of few hundred thousands of the uninsured drivers, car insurance rates in California have gone down.

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