The government has promised people will not be forced to sell their homes to pay for care in old age after a proposal to restrict eligibility to defer payment was exposed.
Legal & General is in talks with Unite over potential redundancies at from its protection and savings divisions.
Workplace pension savers should be able to earmark part of their funds to pay for long-term care, according to a white paper.
Zurich has seen a 4% rise in the number of income protection claims settled in favour of the claimant in the first six months of the year, paying out to 94% of cases.
Labour's Lord Hunt was right to highlight the practical difficulties of asking local authorities to assess all self-funders as part of long-term care reforms, adviser firm LEBC Group has said.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is not seeking to pile more pressure on adviser firms already under financial strain by investigating payments they may receive from providers, its director responsible for supervising advisers said.