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A report, by Oxford Economics with Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres and insurer Unum, reveals as many as 63,000 people living with cancer today want to work, but are encountering barriers that prevent them from doing so.

Unum has launched a website to help advisers communicate the benefits of income protection to clients.

Welcome to the Autumn issue of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise. The special supplement can be a helpful aid for advisers in trying to build client understanding of protection. This issue is very focused on income protection and workplace benefits.

Unum is optimistic the Money Advice Service (MAS) will still be a strong contender to distribute the recent steering group-proposed simple products, despite recent troubles.

Unum was in talks yesterday with Carol Sergeant to bang the drum for more prominence on the workplace in the distribution of her steering group's simple income replacement concept.

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Unum has created a video to help employers understand the value of income protection to their business.

Unum has created a video to help employers understand the value of Income Protection to their business.

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.

Group protection specialist Unum has launched an application - ‘The Perkulator' - which enables people to calculate how much their benefits package is worth, based on simple information they provide.