Income Protection

Company sick pay is not available to 34% of working Britons, amounting to 11m people, research by LV= has revealed.

The gap between people's needs if they became critically ill or disabled and what they would have is €750bn across 13 European & Middle Eastern countries, a report from Swiss Re has found.

Royal London has revealed that it paid out on 90% of Income Protection (IP) claims in 2014, with a total payout of over £3.2m.

LifeQuote has introduced a suite of short term income protection (STIP) policies to support their existing income protection (IP) panels.

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) must use lessons from its recent welfare reforms to improve how it handles change, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said in a report.

Income Protection (IP) specialist PG Mutual saw a 4.7% increase in its balance sheet, bringing it to a record £37m.

The vast scale of self-employed people who believe less income protection claims are paid out than actually are has been found by research from British Friendly.

LV= has announced that its pledge to donate 77p to Seven Families for every Flexible Protection Plan (FPP) income protection application it received has raised £3,000.

Cirencester Friendly has increased its annual premium income by 4.5% and its investment income by over 10% during 2014, the friendly society's 125th Annual Report and Accounts have revealed.

The Seven Families Campaign has launched a montage video of the families involved.