Income Protection

Employers underestimate the importance of the benefits they offer staff after new research revealed half of employees would move jobs for better benefits.

The group risk market has begun to recover from the effects of recession although income protection is still in decline, according to Swiss Re.

Legal & General has become the first non mutual of 2011 to publish its income protection (IP) claims data.

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.

MPs have launched an enquiry into the migration from Incapacity Benefits to Employment Support Allowance (ESA), including the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).

The government is aware a considerable expansion in the group income protection market (GIP) is one option for its review of the welfare and sickness absence system.

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.

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...

Wiltshire Friendly Society has announced high claims payments on income protection, with 97.6% of all claims paid.