Income Protection

LV= is extending its offer of a 5% discount on income protection until 14 February.

Wiltshire Friendly Society has contracted Medicals Direct to provide a big T tele interviewing service for its income protection business.

Kevin Carr, CEO of the Protection Review, gives his verdict on the five key developments in protection this month.

Just 7% of UK families feel financially protected while 61% have no life insurance at all, according to new research.

My client is 42 and runs a consultancy in the oil industry. As a result he has to travel extensively, including contracts in dangerous and high disease risk countries such as Algeria, Sudan and Nigeria. He has already arranged international private medical...

Cirencester friendly has called on the government to play its part in supporting simple financial products by publicising those that already exist.

Sickness benefit claimants are ‘not well prepared' for Work Capability Assessments (WCA) that decide their eligibility, an investigation has revealed.

Benefit claimants who refuse to take up the offer of a training course could have their payments stopped, according to government plans.

With sluggish sales, a tough economy and the government's reform of welfare provision, Owain Thomas writes that the timing is right for income protection to finally receive the level of attention it deserves

Work Capability Assessments (WCA) for those claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) are to be made ‘fairer' and ‘more effective' following an independent review.