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The Income Protection Task Force has confirmed the Seven Families campaign has reached the required level of funding to proceed.

At least 4,500 cancer patients (29%) have waited six months or more to find out whether they will even be awarded their disability benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP) after claiming, according to estimates by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Thousands more families will be required to pay inheritance tax (IHT) this year as an improving economy and rising house prices pull them above the threshold, according to figures.

PruProtect is to add Vitality, the insurer's healthy living rewards programme onto its Relevant Life policy.

The government's work and wellbeing agenda is ‘under major threat' as the ‘Fit Note' is failing to deliver on getting people back to work while long-term absence rates have increased; a study has warned.

Minister for Pensions Steve Webb has launched a new action plan to help older workers stay in the workplace.

The governor of the Bank of England has told the UK to prepare for a potential rise in interest rates this year.

NHS patients should have named staff accountable for their care while they are in hospital; new guidance has recommended.

Britain is heading for a 'crisis' in long term care (LTC) as the subject becomes an increasingly important issue over the next five years, Scottish Widows fears.

Employees who have died with outstanding holiday allowance should be paid this after their death, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules.