Income Protection

The extra everyday living costs faced by disabled people are £550 per month, compared to average state benefits payments of £360 per month.

F&TRC's Kirsty Tanner asks whether advisers should be doing more to ensure the value and quality of supplementary benefits in income protection (IP.)

My client wants to take out a life policy, but is worried they might have missed out some GP appointments over the past five years in their application. Will this affect them getting cover, and how do I reassure them?

Myles Rix, managing director of protection at LV=, gives his views on how the industry can make IP more attractive in the eyes of the consumer.

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.