Income Protection

Friends Life, now part of the Aviva Group, has announced new enhancements to its Protect+ income protection proposition including improved guaranteed benefits.

Chancellor George Osborne has announced changes to the benefits system, including lowering the cap on benefits and changes to the Employment and Support Allowance.

Cirencester Friendly's My Earnings Insurance and Income Assured Plus Income Protection (IP) products will be available as part of Succession Group's panel.

LV= is to hold seven seminars for advisers looking to boost their income protection (IP) sales.

Mortgage and insurance distribution company Pink has raised £8,000 for the Seven Families project.

Almost three quarters (72%) of advisers polled believe that protection sales will increase in 2015, a survey has revealed.

Paul Avis looks at how much money group risk advisers are actually making.

Eight out of ten Britons consider broadband essential, compared to just under four in ten (39%) who consider protection to be essential, a survey has found.

Myles Rix, managing director of protection at LV=, gives his views on how the industry can make IP more attractive in the eyes of the consumer.

Company sick pay is not available to 34% of working Britons, amounting to 11m people, research by LV= has revealed.