Moving the Financial Resilience debate forwards

The facts are stark. 1.8 million people are off work sick for more than 4 weeks in any given year; 70% of longer term absence is in those employed by SMEs and 60% of absence is accounted for by women.  Yet 2016 MAS research shows that over 16 million people have savings under £100 and only around 3 million people are covered by IP bought by themselves or their employer. The scope for growing this market is huge. So what next. First we need the Government to set up a high profile task force to support increased household resilience and make people aware of the options that are open to ...