Income Protection

Over half of middle income households are vulnerable to losing their primary income, according new research.

Doctors have branded fit notes a success in helping people return to work but believe it has not improved advice to patients and that more local services are needed to support returning to work.

Disabled people receiving the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will be subject to regular reassessments and the majority of cases will be fixed-term payments.

Personal Touch has become the first network to offer British Friendly's income protection product.

Exeter Family Friendly paid over 95% of all its income protection (IP) claims received during 2010.

Ark Financial Leads has launched a service to provide advisers with telephone qualified income protection (IP) leads.

Holloway Friendly has launched a new Income Protection plan tailored specifically for mortgage advisers to sell.

British workers are among the worst protected among their peers in the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and government incentives should address it, according to a new report.

British Friendly is launching an income protection plan designed for the intermediary market.

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...