state benefits

Economic inactivity due to sickness could reach 4.3 million

Group Protection

Economic inactivity due to sickness could reach 4.3 million

Commission on Health and Prosperity

clock 17 September 2024 • 3 min read

Individual Protection

MP calls for National Insurance surcharge for over-50s to pay for social care

Social care funding gap stands at £7bn

clock 23 July 2021 • 2 min read

Regulation

Universal Credit Covid top-up maintained for six months

Until September

clock 03 March 2021 • 1 min read

Income Protection

Covid cuts to Universal Credit would push 760,000 below poverty line

Fabian Society report shows

clock 19 February 2021 • 4 min read

Income Protection

Brits increasingly exposed to 'sick pay gap'

As SSP value falls

clock 29 January 2020 • 1 min read

Income Protection

Holloway Friendly: Keeping life colourful

Interactive eBook

clock 30 April 2019 • 1 min read

Individual Protection

Industry reaction: Protection exempt from mortgage loan means-testing - DWP

Providers supplying mortgage protection solutions alongside State benefits should 'keep it simple'

clock 11 July 2018 • 3 min read

Individual Protection

DWP: Mortgage protection pay-outs excluded from means-testing

Income from insurance covering mortgage payments disregarded when entitlement to benefits assessed

clock 11 July 2018 • 3 min read

Individual Protection

Think tank proposes scrapping current disability benefit system

The out-of-work benefits system for people with a health condition or disability is ‘broken' and should be scrapped in favour of a single working age benefit, a major report has urged.

clock 05 February 2016 • 4 min read

Whole of Life

Bereavement benefits: Couples face £82m 'living together penalty'

Out-of-date benefit rules which omit cohabiting couples from certain Bereavement Benefits are costing £82 million per year in lost benefits, according to a major report by Royal London.

clock 27 January 2016 • 2 min read