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Disability and working age benefits will rise by 5.2% next year, the Chancellor has announced.

The payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal has cost the financial services industry more than three quarters of a billion in redress payments to customers in the first three quarters of the year.

Shareholders in Resolution Ltd are expected to block any further acquisitions other than life businesses by the company under new rules to be confirmed in January.

The NHS could save up to £1.7bn a year if hospitals and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) treated more patients in the home, according to a new report.

Dilnot was backed by the House of Lords yesterday, as Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) president Lord Lipsey warned the report's care cost cap proposals were in "danger of going down the pan."

BMI Healthcare has defended its letter to Bupa patients about the dispute between the two organisations over use of private hospitals.

Equity release could play a bigger role in funding long term care "if we had more certainty around state benefits" says director general of SHIP, Andrea Rozario.

Parents and partners, not professionals, are increasingly the first point of call for financial advice, according to new research.

Fraud is becoming a key target for the health insurance industry as it bids to stem the continued growth in medical inflation.

A worldwide scheme to reduce healthcare fraud has been launched including key players from the UK private medical insurance (PMI) market.