Employee Benefits
Regulation
HMRC has offered employers who use employee benefit trusts (EBTs) the chance to settle upcoming tax liabilities with no further questions before the trusts become illegal.
27 April 2011
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Income Protection
Employers underestimate the importance of the benefits they offer staff after new research revealed half of employees would move jobs for better benefits.
20 April 2011
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Products
Only 56% of companies procuring staff benefits use a broker, yet 90% of those who do think it is money well spent, Denplan has found.
15 April 2011
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Employee Benefits
Long term absence is a business affecting issue for 50% of employers, with 27% claiming it as a ‘major headache', new research from Aviva has found.
28 March 2011
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Products
A new provider of health screening services, HealthScreen UK, has entered the UK employee benefits market.
16 March 2011
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Income Protection
My client has an individual IP policy, but his employer is offering group IP cheaper for the same level of cover, plus an employee assistance programme (EAP). It is unlikely he will work for the same employer for life and this policy has a continuation...
08 March 2011
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Protection
The Pensions Bill has begun its reading in Parliament. Will the creation of the National Employment Savings Trust open the market to businesses never before involved in providing financial support to their employees and create opportunities for advisers...
08 March 2011
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Group Protection
More older people are still at work after reaching 65, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown.
02 March 2011
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Employee Benefits
Mercer has signed up three of the UK's biggest corporate benefit providers to launch a corporate wrap platform.
09 February 2011
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Group Protection
Colin Williams has been appointed director of corporate at Friends Provident, responsible for the provider's strategy in the corporate benefits market.
08 February 2011
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