Employee Benefits

Jelf Employee Benefits is advising the Federation of Small Businesses on PMI options following a new three-year deal.

It is no secret that protection is on the minds of most - if not all - existing retail investment platforms. And the first to come to the fore was Nucleus, with its new investment-linked life assurance proposition.

Legal and General has added a face-to-face counselling service to its group income protection (group IP) proposition in a bid to further tackle stress management.

Employers and their staff could face more questions and demands for greater workforce information from insurers when taking out new policies or schemes in light of the new Consumer Insurance Act, insurers are warning.

Providers have welcomed the government's statutory sick pay increase, but warned against "woefully" high rates of unprotected families as welfare cuts continued.

Half of workers assume their boss would foot the bill for long-term sick leave.

MetLife is adding a master trust to its group life product.

A new health and work assessment and advisory service is to be set up to encourage employers to fund around 110,000 health-related interventions, following the Budget's news of health intervention tax relief.

Tax relief for businesses for health interventions is a great start, says Unum's John Letizia, but we should push for more

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