Economy

Income protection (IP) sales have soared due to a number of factors including customers' increased appetite for normal retirement age products and the product potentially making gains at the expense of other...

While employers see the value of group income protection (GIP) as a means of early intervention to keep employees at work and and demand for this benefit is holding up, economic pressures...

Baroness Nicky Morgan is seeking to launch an inquiry on women's financial resilience in the House of Lords. Speaking at the Women in Protection conference, Baroness Morgan (pictured) told delegates the inquiry...

Workplace absences connected to employees taking time off to care for a cancer-stricken loved one could cost UK employers an estimated £8.5bn this year due to an increase in cases. This is...

The average household will be around £500 better off in real terms by 2028-29 with those on lower incomes seeing the greatest uplift, according to analysis by HM Treasury (HMT) published as...

Ministers are set to announce that around 1.3 million people on low wages who find themselves ill are expected to either receive 80% of their average weekly earnings or the rate of...

Employees under 35 are more likely than older colleagues to see the benefits of office-based work, according to research from Vitality’s Britain’s Healthiest Workplace.  The research shows that young workers are heading...

The Labour government is launching an independent commission to reform adult social care in England but has been told it must act quicker or risk repeating previous failures in the sector. Crossbench...

The year of 2024 will be remembered across the UK and international health and protection insurance markets as one of major changes and industry turbulence. Here are the most read articles from...

Our final review of the year looks back at Q4 2024 when the Health & Protection Awards 2024 returned, as did Scottish Widows to the world of income protection, Bupa aimed to...