Planet Insurance

In March the Social Policy Research Unit in York published a report on the financial implications of the death of a partner. Some of the key findings were that: one in five women, and one in ten men, bereaved under pension age have dependent children; decline in income following death was greatest among people under pension age, due largely to loss of partner’s earnings or their own withdrawal from paid work; and administrative requirements following death require a lot of work and often feature delays, errors and problems in communication. In October John McFall chairman of the Treas...