Income Protection

GPs have voted to end work capability assessment.

The gender-neutral pricing saga could just be unnecessary drama, according to Exeter Family Friendly.

The Department for Work and Pensions is taking lone parents off income support earlier in their child's life and returning them to work.

British businesses appear split down the middle on their knowledge of group income protection, research finds.

The Income Protection Task Force has completed a draft Charter setting out the obligations and opportunities of companies selling Income Protection.

With the exception of pensions, over a third of employers never communicate with their staff about core financial employee benefits, and another quarter do so less than once a year.

Employers are increasingly becoming benefit facilitators rather than benefit providers, Swiss Re's Group Watch survey finds.

The joint chair and founding member of the Income Protection Task Force has thrown his weight behind COVER's campaign against the use of list based definitions in income protection policies.

LV= has backed COVER's IP Campaign and is considering alternatives for its remaining occupations which have a list based definition of incapacity.

Financial advisers, Drewberry Insurance, has launched an income protection (IP) tool to help consumers understand which occupation definition they are likely to be offered, based on four key aspects of the individual's job.