Income Protection

So, you haven't sold income protection to your clients. What's the worst that can happen? According to John Bridge, an awful lot...

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Universal Provident has increased its maximum initial insurable benefit under LivingCare, its long term disability insurance policy, from £20,000 to £35,000 per annum.

The fit note is failing to reduce employee sickness absence and may take five years to become fully integrated, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has revealed.

The new NHS focus on patient outcomes will specifically target getting those suffering long term conditions or mental illness back into work.

With take up of sales in income protection (IP) by advisers so low, reflecting in low consumer sales, what could be done to the product to make it more attractive to IFAs, apart from increased commission?

The FSA is currently consulting on its guidance for payment protection insurance (PPI) and potential replacement products such as short-term income protection (STIP).

Disabled people living in residential care will continue to have their additional mobility needs met, the Government has announced.

IFAs will now be able to compare, quote, and apply for LV='s budget income protection (IP) product through the Avelo Exchange.

Pacific Life Re has re-opened the debate surrounding need for protection to be made compulsory in some capacity after the government unveiled its mortgage indemnity guarantee scheme.