employee benefits
Employee Benefits
Chancellor Philip Hammond has restricted the tax-free benefits offered by salary sacrifice schemes - a move that is set to save the government more than £1bn by 2022.
23 November 2016
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4 min read
Employee Benefits
Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions account for a high proportion of the value of claims on corporate schemes - typically 35 to 40% of the total claims spend - and are also responsible for around 33m days sickness absence per year, according to research....
22 November 2016
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1 min read
Employee Benefits
The UK Group Risk market - more employees and premiums, but still too few employers writes Paul Avis.
17 November 2016
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8 min read
Employee Benefits
Mike Tyler has been appointed to Head of Lockton International Benefits, as the world's largest privately owned insurance broker "continues to see increased client demand for benefits services."
14 November 2016
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1 min read
Income Protection
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...
11 November 2016
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3 min read
Employee Benefits
Research from Group Risk Development (GRiD) shows that the majority of employers overestimate the cost of group risk financial protection for their staff. Katharine Moxham discusses this in more depth.
03 November 2016
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4 min read
Income Protection
Aon Employee Benefits warns that employers insuring Group Income Protection benefits need to be ready for upcoming reductions to state provision.
01 November 2016
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2 min read
Employee Benefits
Aviva is the first group protection insurer in the UK to partner with Care first and offer access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) App.
01 November 2016
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1 min read
Critical Illness
Canada Life Group Insurance has renewed its contract with RedArc to provide long-term support for Group Critical Illness claimants for another three years.
31 October 2016
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2 min read
Income Protection
Research recently published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) highlighted that one in eight UK workers are forced to retire early because of ill health or disability. John Dean looks at how we can keep the ageing workforce fit and in work.
25 October 2016
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3 min read
