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Government should encourage greater take-up of income protection (IP) to relieve the burden on the taxpayer and Treasury and improve attitudes to the welfare state, MPs heard yesterday.

Ageas Protect has added family bereavement support to a range of its protection policies.

Almost (46%) of young workers agree that older employees should retire younger as they pose a threat to younger workers' career progression, a survey from KPMG reveals.

With over 300,000 employees moving from work to state sickness benefits, and many employers looking to reduce sick pay within the next year, income protection 'must not be ignored', PG Mutual has said.

UK pay awards are expected fall short of inflation for the fourth year in a row, analysis from XpertHR reveals.

Legal & General (L&G) yesterday announced it has upped the base salary for its top executives by a fifth to £560,000.

Clive Waller, co-chairman of the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF), has announced he is stepping down from his role at the end of this year.

UK businesses have lost a staggering £36.6m in the last year due to people taking time off work because of dental problems, according to estimates from the British Dental Health Foundation.

Life insurers are much less optimistic about the overall business situation than they were three months ago, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)

Annual research into the insurance needs of gay men and women, by gay protection specialist IFA Compass, has for the first time focused on critical illness (CI) cover, instead of life insurance.