Income Protection

LV= discusses how it would like to see financial resilience top of the agenda for the new Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB).

The Income Protection Task Force is now proposing two new areas for the industry to consider backing as it progresses the Seven Families (7F) project, COVER can exclusively reveal.

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has called for an auto-enrolment style scheme for group income protection (GIP) in its Green Paper response.

Zurich paid over £224.6m in protection claims last year to its retail customers, an increase of 6% from £212.5m in 2015.

Unum has called for the government to introduce a temporary tax incentive for employers that buy group income protection (GIP) to improve the working lives of people with disabilities and long term health problems.

Leading experts on work, health and disability including Professor Dame Carol Black have written essays for a report, What next for health at work, published by Unum.

'Millions of renters are risking eviction and financial hardship' due to lack of protection, according to research from Scottish Widows.

The government must provide additional financial support for disabled people before introducing a lower benefit rate, the Work and Committee has warned.

With 2017 now fully underway, there is a certain buzz in the world of protection, with progressive new initiatives underway and much to look forward to for the year ahead, write Swiss Re's Maxine Udall.

Amanda Curwood, head of tactical projects at protection intermediary LifeSearch, has been living on statutory sick pay for a week to promote the values of income protection and better understand the realities of life on a strict budget. This is the story...