Income Protection

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The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today announced the first oral evidence session for its inquiry into Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Work Capability Assessments (WCA).

Exeter Family Friendly has launched a level premium option on its Income One income protection (IP) plan.

Income protection provider British Friendly has launched a new online application process for financial advisers.

LV= is launching a new YouTube campaign ‘Near Misses' highlighting the provider's Sick Pay Insurance.

Unemployed people looking for work were almost twice as likely as those in employment to have a limiting long-standing illness or disability, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

LV= has revealed a 9% fall in its protection business in its results for the year to 31 December 2013.

Atos Healthcare has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions to allow it to exit from the Work Capability Assessment contract early.

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has said its 'Family Support Initiative' is ‘progressing extremely well' with a launch meeting for stakeholders set for May.

Income protection provider British Friendly has confirmed it will continue to guarantee its existing rate tables across all products until January 2017, for both new and existing customers.