How a society treats its disabled and sick workers is increasingly an economic as well as a social issue. So it is encouraging to see the Government start to address both with its recent Green paper on 'Improving Lives, writes Huw Evans, director general of the ABI.
I have a personal interest in this subject as someone who grew up with a disabled parent. When my late mother was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis in her mid-20s, it rapidly spelled the end of her working life. Fifty years later, the Government is still wrestling with the challenge of how to increase the number of disabled people in work and how to help those who suffer with mental health or musculo-skeletal conditions get the early rehabilitation they need to be able to avoid long-term absence from the workplace. Income Protection Insurance has a real role to play in this, espe...
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