Group risk pay outs total £2.2bn in 2022: GRiD

Cancer was once again the most common reason for group claims, accounting for two thirds of group income protection claims (66%), over one in three group life claims (37%) and more than one quarter of group critical illness claims (27%). Covid-19 accounted for just 3.7% of group life claims, down from 11.7% in 2021, representing the seventh most common reason for a claim in 2022. Elsewhere, heart disease was the second-most common reason for group life claims, whereas mental illness and heart attack were the secondary reasons for group income protection and group critical illness, res...