How long should I keep my car insurance statements?
My partner and I are cleaning out our garage. We came across a few boxes with years and years' worth of old car insurance info. How long should we keep these bills and statements?
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
Great question! You definitely don’t want to throw away any important documents during spring cleaning! That said, generally, you should only need to hold onto old policy info for one year after getting a new policy. The exception would be any information regarding past claims.
Other than that, there’s no real use for keeping old policy info. For your current policy, make sure you keep:
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