Income Protection

Disability charities are horrified at government plans to cut employment and support allowance (ESA) during appeals.

Protection and health insurance complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) leapt sharply in the second three months of the year.

I write with regret that the income protection (IP) quality standard (QS) has been abandoned.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is reportedly pushing for GPs to be required to encourage patients with long term medical conditions to go back to work.

Aviva has bowed to public pressure and toned down its Downtown Abbey motorcycle crash victim ads.

LV= has signified its intent to become the cheapest income protection (IP) provider by reducing prices for the next three months.

Friends Life has defended its direct to consumer proposition, PlanWise, against an claims it is using the service to cut advisers out of the sales process.

Protection provider Unum received a broadly positive reaction on Twitter to its upbeat adverts for income protection, aired last night, in stark contrast to the wave of criticism levelled at larger rival Aviva for its shock-tactic ads.

Unum has become the second insurer to use ITV's Downton Abbey to promote the importance of income protection (IP).

The project to bring about an income protection (IP) quality standard (QS) has been abandoned.