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The department of Work and Pensions has published the Social security benefits up-rating for 2014 in a written Ministerial Statement.

Poor health and a lack of motivation is damaging productivity and retarding potential growth, according to Bupa.

Further details about the government's new Health and Work Service (HWS) have been published along with a substantial report examining the potential value of using telephone services to provide health and return to work support.

CIExpert has applauded Aviva's critical illness cover in light of the changes made today.

Aviva has altered its critical illness (CI) cover, with a focus on changes which will pay more claims.

MPs have refused to grant the regulator the power to ban individuals before its investigations into them are completed, due in part to the "serious harm" it could cause small firms.

Deaths from breast, prostate and colorectal cancer will decrease by 44% between 1992 and 2020, whilst deaths from lung cancer will decrease by only 16%, according to projections by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Only a minority of private sector employers have carried out an equal pay review despite more than a decade of campaigns designed to persuade firms to take this step voluntarily, a survey shows.

The financial services industry needs a simplified regime within which it can "talk the consumer language", in order to attract people shut out by the retreat of bank advice, BlackRock has suggested.

AXA PPP has applauded the Government's announcement on extending tax exemption on employer-paid occupational health treatments and noted that it had clearly listened to the insurance industry.