Income Protection

Legal & General has upgraded its group income protection Worklife Solutions package to help reduce the impact of absences with the addition of a new stress toolkit for line managers.

The UK unemployment rate fell 0.1% in the three months to July to 7.7%, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Due to new methods of gathering data, it may be possible to predict future income protection claimants. Wilson Carswell explains.

An employment appeals tribunal (EAT) judge has outlined how employers could develop a strategy to accommodate employees with disabilities that interact with other illnesses.

The government is cutting welfare budgets with a change in focus on disability benefits. As a result many people currently unemployed through sickness or disability could find themselves in a tough situation. How would I position my business to take this...

Government should encourage greater take-up of income protection (IP) to relieve the burden on the taxpayer and Treasury and improve attitudes to the welfare state, MPs heard yesterday.

With over 300,000 employees moving from work to state sickness benefits, and many employers looking to reduce sick pay within the next year, income protection 'must not be ignored', PG Mutual has said.

Unum has launched Sick Pay Insurance (SPI), a new group protection product to help employers and employees manage short breaks from work due to illness and injury.

Nearly one in five (19%) of people in the UK aged 16 and over have displayed some forms of anxiety or depression, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has found.

Labour says that it may consider offering incentives for firms providing health and wellbeing benefits to staff and to those organisations paying a living wage were it to win the next general election.