Income Protection

Leaving work due to illness and injury is as damaging as becoming unemployed, and can damage spouses income too, according to new research.

Living on statutory sick pay (SSP) for just three months would result in significant financial hardship for the majority of UK workers and could even force some to move home, according to new research.

The Work and Pensions Secretary has vowed that employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants appealing their ineligibility decision will not have their benefit payments stopped.

My client is just starting out in freelance consultancy after being made redundant. He is a single parent with a 14-year-old daughter and previously had all major protections and private medical insurance (PMI) through work. I will cover him for the usual...

Avelo Exchange has extended its income protection service to intermediaries with the addition of British Friendly's Income Protection plan.

The number of women claiming sickness benefits is rising much faster than for men according to analysis of Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics by Legal & General.

Start up income protection provider, British Friendly, has announced its new business figures for its first six months of trading.

Fewer appeals against Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) decisions are being found in the claimants favour, according to government statistics.

Fewer claimants are being found eligible for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) despite government claims that the benefits system is providing greater protection for disabled people.

Cancer patients already severely struggling with financial difficulties because of their illness could be hit with "catastrophic" effects if welfare reform proceeds, MacMillan Cancer Support has warned.