Individual Protection

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has scrapped housing benefit for young adults aged 18-21 in proposals put forward in parliament on Friday 3rd March.

Roy McLoughlin is leaving Master Adviser to join Cavendish Ware Wealth Management as an adviser, COVER can exclusively reveal.

The government's Dormant Assets Commission is now identifying further sources of unclaimed policies and assets from financial firms that could be donated to the charity sector.

The treatment of income protection in the new Universal Credit (UC) system will create an obstacle to take-up and needs revision, The New Policy Institute has warned.

SAMI Consulting has called for a greater government focus on rehab, good communication and the protection needs of the self-employed in its Green Paper wishlist.

With three national cancer awareness campaigns taking place in March - Prostate Cancer, Ovarian Cancer and Brain Tumour - Scottish Widows is highlighting the fact that millions of Britons are under-protected should serious illness strike.

LifeSearch has announced a 21% increase in gross profits in its results for the year ending August 2016 as the adviser firm also forecast the year ahead for its business and the protection industry.

LifeSearch's chief executive Tom Baigrie has urged the protection industry to be 'all about claims' with claims re-positioned as 'the core product' for insurers to focus on getting right.

LifeSearch has announced the winners of its 2017 awards.

VitalityLife Deputy CEO, Deepak Jobanputra, believes his company's pioneering use of technology to set fairer premiums has led to members re-evaluating their relationship with life insurance